Editing New Brunswick (section)

===Topography===
[[File:027 NB BigNictauLake DSC 1468.JPG|thumb|View of the [[Appalachian Mountains|Appalachian mountains]] from [[Mount Carleton Provincial Park]]]]
New Brunswick lies entirely within the [[Appalachian Mountains|Appalachian Mountain range]]. The [[List of rivers of New Brunswick|rivers of New Brunswick]] drain into either the [[Gulf of Saint Lawrence]] to the east or the [[Bay of Fundy]] to the south. These watersheds include lands in Quebec and Maine.<ref name="hydro">{{Cite journal |last1=Burrel |first1=Brian C |last2=Anderson |first2=James E |date=1991 |journal= Canadian Water Resources Journal|volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=317–330 |doi=10.4296/cwrj1604317 |title=Regional Hydrology of New Brunswick |bibcode=1991CaWRJ..16..317B |doi-access=free}}</ref> The highest point in New Brunswick is [[Mount Carleton]], {{cvt|817|m}}.

New Brunswick and the rest of the [[Maritime Peninsula]] was covered by thick layers of ice during the last glacial period (the [[Wisconsinian glaciation]]).<ref name="Sanger">{{cite book |last1=Sanger |first1=David |editor1-last=Hornsby |editor1-first=S.J. |editor2-last=Reid |editor2-first=J.G. |title=New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons |date=2005 |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |isbn=0-77-352865-2 |page=15 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aIxmyWo6o94C&q="ice+sheets"+"covered+the+maritime+peninsula" |chapter=Pre-European Dawnland: Archaeology of the Maritime Peninsula |access-date=12 October 2020 |archive-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816225755/https://books.google.com/books?id=aIxmyWo6o94C&q=%22ice+sheets%22+%22covered+the+maritime+peninsula%22 |url-status=live}}</ref> It cut [[U-shaped valley]]s in the Saint John and [[Nepisiguit River]] valleys and pushed [[granite]] boulders from the Miramichi highlands south and east, leaving them as [[Glacial erratic|erratics]] when the ice receded at the end of the [[Wisconsin glaciation]], along with deposits such as the [[eskers]] between Woodstock and St George, which are today sources of sand and gravel.