Location
The Taiga Plains is located mostly in the Northwest Territories, and in parts of Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon.
Land Forms
Landforms of the Taiga Plains include:
- Interior plains
- Vast lowlands
- Plateaus
- Rolling hills
- The occasional larger river valleys that can be hundreds of metres deep
- The Mackenzie Mountains that are on the west of this ecozone
Mackenzie Mountains
Geologic History
Underneath the land forms of the Taiga Plains there is:
Glaciers that passed through the Taiga Plains have:
- Sedimentary rock
- Limestone, shale, and sandstone
- Fossils of marine organisms that lived millions of years ago
- Oil and gas pockets
Glaciers that passed through the Taiga Plains have:
- Left behind sand, gravel and boulders
- Formed the Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes
Sandstone, shale, and limestone
