Lithoprobe crustal reflection structure of the Southern Canadian Cordillera 2: Coast mountains transect

Tectonics ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Varsek ◽  
Frederick A. Cook ◽  
Ronald M. Clowes ◽  
J. Murray Journeay ◽  
James W. H. Monger ◽  
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Tectonics ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 770-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott D. Samson ◽  
P. Jonathan Patchett ◽  
William C. McClelland ◽  
George E. Gehrels

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 3665-3682
Author(s):  
Juris D. Almonte ◽  
Ronald E. Stewart

Abstract. The occurrence of various types of winter precipitation is an important issue over the southern Canadian Cordillera. This issue is examined from January to April of 2010 by exploiting the high-resolution Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model Version 3.4.1 dataset that was used to simulate both a historical reanalysis-driven (control – CTRL) and a pseudo-global-warming (PGW) experiment (Liu et al., 2016). Transition regions, consisting of both liquid and solid precipitation or liquid precipitation below 0 ∘C, occurred on 93 % and 94 % of the days in the present and PGW future, respectively. This led to accumulated precipitation within the transition region increasing by 27 % and was associated with a rise in its average elevation by 374 m over the Coast Mountains and Insular Mountains and by 240 m over the Rocky Mountains and consequently to an eastward shift towards the higher terrain of the Rocky Mountains. Transition regions comprised of only rain and snow were most common under both the CTRL and PGW simulations, although all seven transition region categories occurred. Transition region changes would enhance some of the factors leading to avalanches and would also impact ski resort operations.


Tectonics ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick A. Cook ◽  
John L. Varsek ◽  
Ronald M. Clowes ◽  
Ernest R. Kanasewich ◽  
Carl S. Spencer ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim W.H. Monger

The boundary between rocks assigned to the Intermontane superterrane in the interior of the Canadian Cordillera and those of the Insular superterrane in the westernmost Cordillera of British Columbia and southeastern Alaska lies within/along the Coast Mountains, in which is exposed the core of an orogen that emerged as a discrete tectonic entity between 105 and 45 million years ago. Evidence from the Coast Mountains and flanking areas indicates that parts of the Intermontane superterrane (in Stikinia and Yukon-Tanana terranes) were near those of the Insular superterrane (Wrangellia and Alexander terranes) by the Early Jurassic (~180 Ma). This timing, as well as paleobiogeographic and paleomagnetic considerations, appears to discount a recent hypothesis that proposes westward-dipping subduction beneath an intra-oceanic arc on Insular superterrane resulted in arc-continent collision and inaugurated Cordilleran orogenesis in the Late Jurassic (~146 Ma). The hypothesis also relates the subducted ocean that had separated the superterranes to a massive, faster-than-average-velocity seismic anomaly in the lower mantle below the eastern seaboard of North America. To create such an anomaly, subduction of the floor of a large ocean was needed. The only surface record of such an ocean in the interior of the Canadian Cordillera is the Cache Creek terrane, which lies within the Intermontane superterrane but is no younger than Middle Jurassic (~174 Ma). This terrane, together with the probably related Bridge River terrane in the southeastern Coast Mountains, which is as young as latest Middle Jurassic (164 Ma) and possibly as young as earliest Cretaceous (≥ 130 Ma), appear to be the only candidates in Canada for the possible surface record of the seismic anomaly.  SOMMAIRELa limite entre les roches assignées au Superterrane d’intermont de l’intérieur des Cordillères canadiennes et celles du Superterrane insulaire dans la portion la plus à l’ouest de la Cordillère de Colombie-Britannique et du sud-est de l’Alaska se trouvent dans et au long de la Chaîne côtière, au sein de laquelle affleure le noyau d’un orogène qui est apparu comme entité tectonique distincte entre 105 et 45 millions d’années.  Des indices de la Chaîne côtière et des régions environnantes montrent que des portions du Superterrane d’intermont (dans les terranes de Stikinia et de Yukon-Tanana) se trouvaient alors près de celles du Superterrane insulaire (terranes de Wrangellia et d’Alexander) au début du Jurassique (~180 Ma).  Cette chronologie, ajoutée à certains facteurs paléobiogéographiques et paléomagnétiques semblent discréditer une hypothèse récente voulant qu’une subduction à pendage ouest sous un arc intra-océanique sur le Superterrane insulaire résultait d’une collision entre un arc et le continent, initiant ainsi l’orogénèse de la Cordillère à la fin du Jurassique (~146 Ma).  Cette hypothèse relie aussi l’océan subduit qui séparait les superterranes à une anomalie de vitesse sismique plus rapide que la normale dans le manteau inférieur sous le littoral maritime oriental de l’Amérique du Nord.  Pour créer une telle anomalie, la subduction du plancher d’un grand océan était nécessaire.  La seule indication de surface de l’existence d’un tel océan à l’intérieur de la Cordillère canadienne est le terrane de Cache Creek qui, bien qu’il se trouve dans le Superterrane d’intermont, est plus ancien que le Jurassique moyen (~174 Ma).  Ce terrane, avec son équivalent probable de Bridge River dans le sud-est de la Chaîne côtière, qui est aussi jeune que la fin du Jurassique (164 Ma) et peut-être aussi jeune que le début du Crétacé (≥ 130 Ma), semblent être les seuls candidats au Canada offrant des vestiges en surface de cette anomalie sismique. 


1974 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Forsyth ◽  
M. J. Berry ◽  
R. M. Ellis

Record sections from partially reversed refraction lines in northern British Columbia show that the amplitudes of upper mantle arrivals vary smoothly with distance, while the pattern of crustal arrival amplitudes is not smooth. Normalization of the seismograms to remove the effects of varying shot size and instrument response show that Pn amplitudes are largely site-independent.Models derived from ray theory indicate a crust which thins from about 40 km in the Omineca Crystalline Belt to about 25 km in the Insular Trough. The average Pn velocity is 8.06 km s−1, and the average crustal velocity is 6.4 km s−1. The secondary energy indicates that the models are greatly simplified.A time–term profile between the Omineca Crystalline Belt and the Coast Mountains suggests a Mohorovičić transition which is characterized by two significant topographic wavelengths. The shorter (200 km) wavelength correlates roughly with the Cordilleran structural elements of Wheeler and Gabrielse (1972). The larger (800 km) wavelength may have tectonic significance.


1990 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Desloges ◽  
J. M. Ryder

The maximum Holocene extent of glaciers in the study area is marked by late Neoglacial (Little Ice Age) terminal moraines. Moraine stratigraphy and 14C dates from a small number of sites suggest that glacier advance, almost as extensive as that of the late Neoglacial, occurred about 2500 14C years BP, and that late Neoglacial advance began well before 770 14C years BP (or the thirteenth century A.D.); glacier termini then stood close to the position of the climax moraines for several centuries. Dates of stabilization of end moraines at 16 glaciers were determined by dendrochronology, with tree-ring counts corrected for sampling errors and ecesis. Most terminal moraines date from 1860 to 1900. Many recessional moraines were formed between 1900 and 1940, coincident with a regionally documented phase of cooler and wetter climate. The proposed chronology is similar to results from elsewhere in the Canadian Cordillera.


1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren J. Nokleberg ◽  
Timothy D. West ◽  
Kenneth M. Dawson ◽  
Vladimir I. Shpikerman ◽  
Thomas K. Bundtzen ◽  
...  

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren J. Nokleberg ◽  
Timothy D. West ◽  
Kenneth M. Dawson ◽  
Vladimir I. Shpikerman ◽  
Thomas K. Bundtzen ◽  
...  

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