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Geological Cross-section of Southern British Columbia 
Map of northern North America showing major geological units of the continent and their ages. Black polygons show LITHOPROBE transects (areas of study). The area of the Southern Cordillera Transect (SC, outlined by a green polygon), is shown on the map to the left.
SNORCLE - Slave Northern Cordillera Lithospheric Evolution; AB - Alberta Basement; THOT - Trans-Hudson Orogen; WS - Western Superior; KSZ - Kapuskasing Structural Zone; GL - Great Lakes International Multidisciplinary Program on Crustal Evolution (GLIMPCE); AG - Abitibi-Grenville; LE - Lithoprobe East; and ECSOOT - Eastern Canadian Shield Onshore-Offshore. MRS is mid-continent rift system.
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