Minnitaki Kames Provincial Park
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Minnitaki Kames Provincial Park is a 44.22 km² nature reserve
in Ontario
, Canada
, designated to protect several distinguishing features, including east-west kame
ridges and numerous terraces. It abuts the shores of Minnitaki Lake
, with the nearest settlement at Sioux Lookout
, about 20 km to the north.
Each of the five large kame
s, the largest in northwestern Ontario, "is completely covered by an extensive jack pine
dominated closed coniferous forest". The largest covers over 12 square kilometres, rising about 30 m above the gently sloping bedrock
, which attains elevations between 358 m and 437 m.
These glacial features are related to Lake Agassiz
, and were deposited about 9,500 to 10,000 years ago during the Timiskaming Interstadial
.
Nature reserve
A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research...
in Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, designated to protect several distinguishing features, including east-west kame
Kame
A kame is a geological feature, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface with further melting of the glacier...
ridges and numerous terraces. It abuts the shores of Minnitaki Lake
Minnitaki Lake
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, with the nearest settlement at Sioux Lookout
Sioux Lookout, Ontario
Sioux Lookout is a town in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It has a population of 5,336 and an elevation of 1280 ft / 390 m. Known locally as the "Hub of the North", it is serviced by the Sioux Lookout Airport, Highway 72, and the Sioux Lookout railway station...
, about 20 km to the north.
Each of the five large kame
Kame
A kame is a geological feature, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface with further melting of the glacier...
s, the largest in northwestern Ontario, "is completely covered by an extensive jack pine
Jack Pine
Jack pine is a North American pine with its native range in Canada east of the Rocky Mountains from Northwest Territories to Nova Scotia, and the northeast of the United States from Minnesota to Maine, with the southernmost part of the range just into northwest Indiana...
dominated closed coniferous forest". The largest covers over 12 square kilometres, rising about 30 m above the gently sloping bedrock
Bedrock
In stratigraphy, bedrock is the native consolidated rock underlying the surface of a terrestrial planet, usually the Earth. Above the bedrock is usually an area of broken and weathered unconsolidated rock in the basal subsoil...
, which attains elevations between 358 m and 437 m.
These glacial features are related to Lake Agassiz
Lake Agassiz
Lake Agassiz was an immense glacial lake located in the center of North America. Fed by glacial runoff at the end of the last glacial period, its area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined, and it held more water than contained by all lakes in the world today.-Conception:First...
, and were deposited about 9,500 to 10,000 years ago during the Timiskaming Interstadial
Stadial
A stadial is a period of lower temperatures during an interglacial separating the glacial periods of an ice age. Such periods are of insufficient duration or intensity to be considered glacial periods...
.