Peat landforms along the Albany River, northern Ontario. An ecological study of peat landforms in Canada and Alaska.

During the summer of 1985 a field investigation was started in the Hudson Bay lowland region of N Ontario, which represents the largest expanse of peatland in North America and is an important sink in the global carbon cycle. A key area in the lowlands is situated along the Albany River near the confluence of the Chepay River. Here the striking vegetation-landforms are transitional between those found on the bed of Glacial Lake Agassiz in northern Minnesota and southern Manitoba and the more northern peatlands in the Hudson Bay lowland region. -NASA abstract E86-10014