The main rivers in Alberta start in the west from the Rocky Mountains and generally flow towards the east.
In the cretaceous period, what is now Alberta was covered by a seaway joining the Arctic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico.
Organic rocks are formed by a build up of organic matter and subjected to heat and pressure over time.
Soil supplies nutrients to plant roots, in turn plant roots can break up the soil clumps.
During the ice age Alberta was covered by the Laurentide Ice Sheet and the Cordilleran Ice Sheet.
The geologic cycle, which shows magma forming igneous rocks that are transformed into sedimentary rocks that turn into metamorphic rocks that then melt into magma.
