Tablelands (Newfoundland)

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Landscape of the Tablelands
The Gros Morne Mountain as seen from the Tablelands from

The Tablelands are an area within the Canadian Gros Morne National Park on Newfoundland . They belong to the Long Range Mountains , a branch of the Appalachian Mountains .

The Gros Morne National Park was due to the Tablelands for UNESCO - World Heritage declared. The tablelands are characterized by a barren and desert-like landscape with an ocher yellow color. The tablelands consist of a group of plateaus, small mountains and valleys.

The area is located in the southwestern part of Gros Morne National Park, which is located on the western side of Newfoundland. The Tablelands are accessed by a junction south of Road 431 between Woody Point and Trout River .

geology

Usually one sees only the rocks of the thin earth's crust worldwide. Only in very few places on earth was the lower lying rock of the earth's mantle lifted through folds to the earth's surface. One of these rare places is the Tablelands des Gros Morne National Park in western Newfoundland. Research in the tablelands confirmed the theory of plate tectonics, among other things.

The rock is ocher yellow and shows greenish to gray-black platelets of peridotite at fresh fractures , which are caused by longitudinal and transverse cracks.

flora

Only a few plants are found in wet areas

Due to the composition of the peridotite rock, plant growth is difficult or impossible. In damp depressions where some humus forms, however, the nutrient-poor soil favors the conditions for carnivorous plants such as the domestic red pitcher plants . No growth is possible on the bare plateaus and mountains.

This is particularly noticeable since the neighboring regions with a different soil composition (for example the green gardens ) are densely forested or at least green.

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