The oil sands are a strategic resource that contributes to economic opportunity and energy security for Canada, North America and the global market. The oil sands comprise 167.2 billion barrels of crude oil – 97 percent of Canada’s 172.5 billion barrels of proven oil reserves – and are a vital part of the Canadian economy.
It displays three type of glacial erosion, like the cirque that is created by the side wards erosion and pyramidal peak also called as the horn. And the presence of the Arêtes that is a narrow region of rocks that are separated by the two valleys. The three main type of the erosion process of the glaciers are of plucking, and abrasion and the freeze-thaw
