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Keewatin

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Keewatin: see Precambrian era Precambrian era, name of a major division of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale , table), from c.5 billion to 570 million years ago. It is often divided into the Archeozoic and Proterozoic; in other countries, the Precambrian is broken into other divisions,
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Keewatin
a former administrative district of the Northwest Territories of Canada stretching from the district of Mackenzie to Hudson Bay; became part of Nunavut in 1999: mostly tundra.

Keewatin [kē¦wät·ən]
(geology)
A division of the Archeozoic rocks of the Canadian Shield.


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We overcossed Keewatin liners, small and cramped; but their captains, who see no land between Trepassy and Lanco, know what gold they bring back from West Erica.
 
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