Bathymetric map of the continental margin of western Canada

1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
D A Seemann ◽  
D L Tiffin
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Bathymetric Map

scholarly journals Effects of Cenozoic subduction along the outboard margin of the Northern Cordillera: Derived from e-book on the Northern Cordillera (Alaska and Western Canada) and adjacent marine areas

Geosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-61
Author(s):  
Warren J. Nokleberg ◽  
David W. Scholl ◽  
Thomas K. Bundtzen ◽  
David B. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Hot Springs ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
Oceanic Lithosphere ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Regional Effects ◽  
Marine Areas

Abstract This article describes the regional effects of Cenozoic subduction along the outboard margin of the Northern Cordillera (Alaska, USA, and Western Canada), and thereby acquaints the reader with several chapters of the e-book Dynamic Geology of the Northern Cordillera (Alaska, Western Canada, and Adjacent Marine Areas). This article and the e-book are written for earth-science students and teachers. The level of writing for the article and the source e-book is that of popular science magazines, and readers are encouraged to share this article with students and laypersons. The main thrust of the article is to present and describe a suite of ten regional topographic, bathymetric, and geologic maps, and two figures portraying deep-crustal sections that illustrate the regional effects of Cenozoic subduction along the outboard margin of the North American Cordillera. The regional maps and cross sections are described in a way that a teacher might describe a map to students. Cenozoic subduction along the margin of the Northern Cordillera resulted in the formation of the following: (1) underthrusting of terranes and oceanic lithosphere beneath Southern Alaska; (2) landscapes, including narrow continental shelves along Southern and Southeastern Alaska and Western Canada (the Canadian Cordillera) and continental-margin mountain ranges, including the Alaska Peninsula, Chugach Range, Saint Elias Mountains, and Cascade Mountains; (3) sedimentary basins; (4) an array of active continental strike-slip and thrust faults (inboard of subduction zones); (5) earthquake belts related to subduction of terranes and oceanic plates; (6) active volcanoes, including continental-margin arcs (the Aleutian, Wrangell, and Cascade Arcs) linked to subduction zones, and interior volcanic belts related to strike-slip faulting or to hot spots; (7) lode and placer mineral deposits related to continental margin arcs or subduction of oceanic ridges; (8) hot springs related to continental-margin arcs; (9) plate movements as recorded from GPS measurements; and (10) underthrusting of terranes and oceanic lithosphere beneath the Northern Cordillera.

Neotectonics seismicity in the south-eastern Beaufort Sea polar continental margin of north-western Canada

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.a. Stephenson ◽  
E.i Smolyaninova
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
North Western

Bathymetric Map of Geotechnical Corridor on U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin Southeast of Cape May: ABSTRACT

AAPG Bulletin ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
George F. Merrill, Richard H. Benne
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Bathymetric Map

scholarly journals Chapter 13: Modern Plate Tectonic Regime of the Continental Margin of western Canada

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
R P Riddihough ◽  
R D Hyndman
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Plate Tectonic ◽  
Tectonic Regime

Petroleum System Analysis Using Unconventional Gas Geochemistry: Examples from the Montney Play of Western Canada

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tristan Euzen ◽  
Neil Watson ◽  
Jean-Yves Chatellier ◽  
Andy Mort ◽  
Xavier Mangenot
Keyword(s):  
System Analysis ◽  
Petroleum System ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Unconventional Gas ◽  
Gas Geochemistry
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