| Titre | The age of sensitive clay landslides along the Gatineau Valley, southern Quebec, and their relationship to paleoseismicity in the West Quebec Seismic Zone |
| Auteur | Brooks, G R |
| Source | Eastern Section Seismological Society of America, 2014 Annual Meeting, abstracts; 2014 p. 1 |
| Année | 2014 |
| Séries alt. | Secteur des sciences de la Terre, Contribution externe 20140186 |
| Éditeur | Ressources naturelles Canada |
| Réunion | Eastern Section Seismological Society of America, 2014 Annual Meeting; Charleston; US; Novembre 2-4, 2014 |
| Document | livre |
| Lang. | anglais |
| Media | papier; en ligne; numérique |
| Formats | pdf |
| Province | Québec |
| SNRC | 31F/08; 31F/09; 31G/05; 31G/12 |
| Lat/Long OENS | -76.5000 -75.5000 45.7500 45.2500 |
| Sujets | glissements de terrain; LEDA; argiles; dépôts glaciomarins; datations au radiocarbone; paléogéographie; secousses séismiques; géochronologie |
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| Programme | Ouest du Canada, risque géoscience, Géoscience pour la sécurité publique |
| Liens | Online - En ligne
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| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
Major landslide areas are present along Stag, Daly and Mullin creeks, tributaries of the Gatineau River, southwestern Quebec (near Ottawa, Ontario), where the
creeks are incised into thick sensitive clay glaciomarine deposits. Along the Stag Creek landslide area (~7.2 km2), buried organic materials (outer rings of logs, small branches, other terrestrial plant remains) collected from three valley side
exposures and radiocarbon dated, are relevant to the ages of three landslide deposits. Seven dated samples from two of the exposures are interpreted to indicate that the main debris field aggraded between 5070 and 5430 cal BP. Two sets of ages (790
to 920 and 980 to 1070 cal BP based on four and three ages from two exposures, respectively) relate to smaller-scale landslides within the landslide area. Similar materials for dating were also collected from the lower of two landslide zones along
the Daly Creek landslide area (~2.4 km2). Seven dated samples from two valley side exposures indicate that main debris field aggraded between 5070 and 5440 cal BP. Three dated samples from the base of a terrace exposure indicate that a mudflow
deposit aggraded within the incised creek valley between 730 and 890 cal BP. Dated wood samples provide ages for two secondary landslides within the Mullin Creek landslide area (~4.5 km2). One set was subsampled from a core, 1.42 m long, recovered
from a wetland on the surface of a landslide deposit (~0.07 km2) that is superimposed on the main debris field. The deepest two samples indicate that the landslide aggraded by or shortly before 960-1180 cal BP. Three samples from a landslide inset
within the main debris field reveal that this landslide is young, occurring after 300 cal BP. The ages of four of the Gatineau Valley landslides fall within the 980-1060 and 5000-5400 cal BP ranges of two age groups of 10 and 11 dated landslides that
are located in the greater Ottawa area of the Ottawa Valley. The Gatineau Valley landslide ages reinforce the signatures of these two landslide age groups, which have been interpreted previously to represent the occurrence of paleoearthquakes in the
West Quebec Seismic Zone. The results also increase the areal distribution of the landslides forming the 5000-5400 cal BP group, providing a revised minimum estimate of paleoearthquake magnitude of Mw 6.4. |
| Résumé | (Résumé en langage clair et simple, non publié)
Il ya des centaines de cicatrices sensibles argile de glissements de terrain dans la vallée de l'Outaouais et les vallées de ses principaux
affluents. Des recherches récentes ont enquêté sur l'âge des grands échecs préhistoriques de mieux dans les mécanismes qui peuvent les avoir provoqués. Ce travail a identifié paléoséismes comme un mécanisme de déclenchement majeur. Les résultats
présentés dans ce résumé révèlent les âges de sept glissements de terrain argileux sensibles dans la vallée de la rivière Gatineau. Quatre des âges de glissements de terrain correspondent à l'âge de deux groupes de glissements de terrain (980-1060 et
5000-5400 cal BP) qui ont été interprétés auparavant avoir été déclenchée par paléoséismes. Les résultats Gatineau Valley renforcent les interprétations de paleoearthquake et permettent une révision de l'ampleur minimale de la paleoearthquake plus de
Mw 6.4. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 295141 |
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