Best Answer: The Canadian Shield is the oldest part of the North American continent. It was formed over 1 billion years ago probably through the collision of volcanic island archs that built on to each other.It is made of igneous rocks and highly metamorphosed rocks. I'm sure there are some sedimentary rocks as well.nswers. Best Answer: The Canadian Shield is the oldest part of the North American continent. It was formed over 1 billion years ago probably through the collision of volcanic island archs that built on to each other. It is made of igneous rocks and highly metamorphosed rocks.
Saturn is one of the gassy planets and is huge compared to the size of Earth. Saturn has a diameter of 120,536km much bigger than Earth. Earth, however only has a diameter of â¦ 12,756km.
Orbit and Rotation of Saturn. Saturnâs average distance from the Sun is 1,400,000,000 km. The average orbital speed of Saturn is 9.69 km/s. It takes the earth 365 days to orbit the sun, Saturn takes 10,759 Earth days (or about 29Â½ years), to revolve around the sun; a year on Saturn is equivalent to 29.5 Earth years.