| Title | The Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault Zone - a submarine transform fault, offshore British Columbia and southeastern Alaska, cruise report of 2017003PGC CCGS Vector and 2017004PGC CCGS John P.
Tully |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Barrie, J V ;
Greene, H G; Brothers, D; Conway, K W; Enkin, R J; Conrad, J E;
Lauer, R M; McGann, M; Neelands, P J; East, A |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8398, 2018, 161 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/308327  Open Access |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | digital; on-line |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | British Columbia; Western offshore region |
| NTS | 103B; 103C; 103F; 103G; 103J; 103K; 103O; 104C; 104D; 104E; 104L; 114A |
| Area | Alaska; Sitka; Juneau; Haida Gwaii; Canada; United States of America |
| Lat/Long WENS | -141.0000 -129.0000 59.1667 51.0000 |
| Subjects | marine geology; structural geology; surficial geology/geomorphology; geophysics; stratigraphy; geochronology; geochemistry; bedrock geology; structural features; faults; currents; turbidites; submarine
features; submarine transport; bathymetry; marine sediment cores; grab samples; landslides; landslide deposits; mass wasting; slope stability; photography; marine sediments; earthquakes; earthquake risk; seismic risk; tectonic history; seismicity;
geophysical surveys; sonar surveys; side-scan sonar; seismic surveys, marine; seismic reflection surveys; geophysical logging; radiometric dating; argon argon dating; x-ray diffraction analyses; Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault Zone |
| Illustrations | location maps; geoscientific sketch maps; photographs; profiles; tables; core logs; seismic profiles |
| Program | Marine Geohazards Mapping & Monitoring (MGMM) |
| Released | 2018 06 26 |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Under a joint Natural Resources Canada/US Geological Survey (USGS) program, a marine survey to investigate the central and northern parts of the Queen
Charlotte-Fairweather transform fault system occurred in September 2017. The objective was to determine fault geometry, map submarine landslides and assess tsunami risk to the communities of northern BC and SE Alaska. Associated with the fault are
large mud volcanoes that have plume columns extending as much as 700 m above the seafloor. Data from this survey will help define how fluids affect fault movement and earthquake recurrence. This report presents a summary of the survey with
preliminary results and provides a detailed list of all data collected for subsequent analyses. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 308327 |
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