Molluscan biostratigraphy and paleomagnetism of Campanian strata, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia: implications for Pacific coast North America biochronology

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 939-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Haggart ◽  
Peter D. Ward ◽  
Timothy D. Raub ◽  
Elizabeth S. Carter ◽  
Joseph L. Kirschvink
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Queen Charlotte Islands

Summary of Coastal Geologic Evidence for past Great Earthquakes at the Cascadia Subduction Zone

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian F. Atwater ◽  
Alan R. Nelson ◽  
John J. Clague ◽  
Gary A. Carver ◽  
David K. Yamaguchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Subduction Zone ◽  
Forest Soils ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Cascadia Subduction Zone ◽  
Level Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Juan De Fuca

Earthquakes in the past few thousand years have left signs of land-level change, tsunamis, and shaking along the Pacific coast at the Cascadia subduction zone. Sudden lowering of land accounts for many of the buried marsh and forest soils at estuaries between southern British Columbia and northern California. Sand layers on some of these soils imply that tsunamis were triggered by some of the events that lowered the land. Liquefaction features show that inland shaking accompanied sudden coastal subsidence at the Washington-Oregon border about 300 years ago. The combined evidence for subsidence, tsunamis, and shaking shows that earthquakes of magnitude 8 or larger have occurred on the boundary between the overriding North America plate and the downgoing Juan de Fuca and Gorda plates. Intervals between the earthquakes are poorly known because of uncertainties about the number and ages of the earthquakes. Current estimates for individual intervals at specific coastal sites range from a few centuries to about one thousand years.

Late Pleistocene stratigraphy of south-central British Columbia

1978 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 971-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Fulton ◽  
Geoffrey W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Coastal Regions ◽  
South Central ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Valley Area ◽  
Coast Region

The late Pleistocene deposits of south-central British Columbia record two major glacial and two major nonglacial periods of deposition. The oldest recognized Pleistocene deposits, called Westwold Sediments, were deposited during a nonglacial interval more than 60 000 years ago. Little information is available on the climate of this period, but permafrost may have been present at one time during final stages of deposition of Westwold Sediments. The latter part of this nonglacial period is probably correlative with the early Wisconsin Substage of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Valley area. However, deposition of the Westwold Sediments may have begun during the Sangamon Interglacial.Okanagan Centre Drift is the name applied to sediments deposited during the glaciation that followed deposition of Westwold Sediments. Okanagan Centre Drift is known to be older than 43 800 years BP and probably is older than 51 000. It is considered to correlate with an early Wisconsin glacial period.Bessette Sediments were deposited during the last major nonglacial period, which in south-central British Columbia persisted from at least 43 800 years BP (possibly more than 51 000) to about 19 000 years BP. This episode corresponds to Olympia Interglaciation of the Pacific Coast region and the mid-Wisconsin Substage of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Valley area. During parts of Olympia Interglaciation the climate was probably as warm as the present-day climate in the interior of British Columbia. Information from coastal regions indicates that there may have been periods of cooler and moister climate.Kamloops Lake Drift was deposited during the last major glaciation of south-central British Columbia. Ice occupied lowland areas from approximately 19 000 to 10 000 years BP. This period corresponds approximately to the Fraser Glaciation of the Pacific Coast region and the late Wisconsin Substage of central and eastern parts of North America.

A New Species of Bradyidius (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the Pacific Coast of North America

1966 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 805-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tai Soo Park
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
Saanich Inlet ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
A New Species

A new species Bradyidius saanichi from Saanich Inlet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, is described and illustrated in detail. This species is closely related to B. pacificus (Brodsky, 1950) among the six previously known species in the genus, but can be readily distinguished from the latter by the strongly divergent rostral rami in addition to some other differences.

Geographic and sexual variation in the skull of Pacific coast marten (Martes americana)

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1386-1393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo R. Giannico ◽  
David W. Nagorsen
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
Martes Americana ◽  
The Third ◽  
Queen Charlotte Islands ◽  
Sexual Variation ◽  
Cranial Measurements

From multivariate analyses of 25 cranial measurements, we assessed geographic and sexual variation in three island and two mainland samples of Pacific coast marten (Marten americana) from the caurina subspecies group. Three morphological groups were evident: the first from Queen Charlotte Islands, the second from Alexander Archipelago and Alaska Panhandle, and the third from Vancouver Island and the southern British Columbia coast. We concluded that the subspecies M. a. nesophila should be restricted to the Queen Charlotte Islands; Vancouver Island and southern British Columbia coastal marten are aligned with M. a. caurina. Alaskan marten showed some affinities with the americana subspecies group. The strong differentiation of M. a. nesophila is concordant with the isolation and unique selection regime of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Sexual dimorphism was most pronounced in island samples; possible explanations for this trend are discussed.

Parasites of yellowtail rockfish, Sebastes flavidus (Ayres, 1862) (Pisces: Teleostei), from the Pacific coast of North America as potential biological tags for stock identification

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 1086-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Stanley ◽  
D. L. Lee ◽  
D. J. Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Parasite Species ◽  
Stock Identification ◽  
Latitudinal Cline ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Stock Assessments ◽  
Biological Tags

We assessed the value of parasites of yellowtail rockfish, Sebastes flavidus (Pisces: Teleostei), as biological tags on the Pacific coast of North America. Of the 25 parasite species found, only Microcotyle sebastis (Monogenea: Microcotylidae) showed a latitudinal cline. Prevalence of this flatworm increased from 0–10% in samples from central British Columbia, to 80 and 100% in the California and Oregon samples, respectively. Mean intensity also increased from north to south. The results indicate that stock assessments for yellowtail rockfish, which treat the coastal population as five stocks from central British Columbia to northern California, can assume that harvests in one area will have little short-term impact on distant areas.

Two species of Grania (Oligochaeta, Enchytraeidae) from the Pacific Coast of North America

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 1037-1041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Coates ◽  
Christer Erséus
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Body Appearance

Grania paucispina (Eisen, 1904) and Grania incerta sp.nov. are described, both found in marine sands of California and British Columbia. The species are closely related. Their setae are morphologically very similar, and they both have small glands at their spermathecal openings which distinguish them from other species of the genus. They differ from each other primarily in the distribution of the setae and in body appearance.

Acanthochondria hippoglossi sp.nov. (Copepoda, Chondracanthidae), a crustacean parasite of some flatfishes off the Pacific coast of North America

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-216
Author(s):  
Z. Kabata
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Hippoglossus Stenolepis ◽  
Hippoglossoides Elassodon

The female of Acanthochondria hippoglossi sp.nov. is described from the flatfishes Hippoglossus stenolepis and Hippoglossoides elassodon, taken off the shores of British Columbia. The confusion existing in the literature between this species and Acanthochondria cornuta is discussed and the presence of the latter species in the Pacific discounted.

scholarly journals The first record of a trionychid turtle (Testudines: Trionychidae) from the Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast of North America

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Vavrek ◽  
Donald B. Brinkman
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
First Record ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Interior Basin ◽  
Cretaceous Deposits

Trionychid turtles were widespread throughout much of the Western Interior Basin of North America during the Cretaceous, represented by a wide variety of taxa. Despite their widespread abundance east of the Rocky Mountains, they have not previously been reported from Cretaceous deposits along the Pacific Coast of North America. We report here on an isolated trionychid costal from Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The fossil was recovered from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian to Maastrichtian) Nanaimo Group, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. While the fossil is generically indeterminate, its presence adds an important datapoint in the biogeographic distribution of Trionychidae.  

Nomenclatorial changes in Triaenonychidae: Sclerobunus parvus Roewer is a junior synonym of Paranonychus brunneus (Banks), Mutusnonychus Suzuki is a junior synonym of Paranonychus Briggs, and Kaolinonychinae Suzuki is a junior synonym of Paranonychinae Briggs (Opiliones: Triaenonychidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1809 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM A. SHEAR ◽  
SHAHAN DERKARABETIAN
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Queen Charlotte Islands ◽  
Original Proposal ◽  
The Family ◽  
Clackamas County

The harvestman species Sclerobunus parvus was described by Roewer (1931) from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. Some forty years later, Briggs (1971) revised the Triaenonychidae of North America, but missed including Roewer’s species, which had not been mentioned in the literature since its description. Briggs (1971) recognized two subfamilies in North America, Triaenonychinae Sørensen 1886 (Briggs attributed the subfamily name to Pocock, but according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Sørensen’s original proposal of the family name included the nominate subfamily) and Paranonychinae Briggs 1971. Paranonychinae included two new genera, Metanonychus Briggs 1971 and Paranonychus Briggs 1971. The latter genus was based on Sclerobunus brunneus Banks 1893, a commonly occurring species distributed from Clackamas County, Oregon, north to Atka Island, Alaska (Briggs 1971).

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