Large fossil birds from a Late Cretaceous marine turbidite sequence on Hornby Island (British Columbia)

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 1489-1496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Dyke ◽  
Xia Wang ◽  
Gary Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Fossil Birds ◽  
Size Classes ◽  
Eastern Margin ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

Few fossil birds and non-avian dinosaurs are known from Mesozoic sediments bordering the eastern margin of the Pacific Ocean. Here, we describe additional remains of Late Cretaceous birds from a deep-water marine turbidite sequence of the Northumberland Formation exposed on Hornby Island, British Columbia. The bones described here are referable (based on hypothesized autapomorphies) to the Cretaceous avian lineages Enantiornithes and Ornithurae and fall into at least two size classes within either lineage. This suggests the presence of multiple taxa occurring within the Northumberland Formation.

scholarly journals Tweedsmuir Park, British Columbia: A Plea for Preservation

Oryx ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-211
Author(s):  
Genevieve Barteaux
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Bella Coola ◽  
Mackenzie River

To understand the interior of British Columbia the reader must realize that the white man's history there is short, for Alex Mackenzie was the first white man to make his way overland to the Bella Coola Valley in 1793. Three years later, on his journey to the Pacific Ocean, he followed the Mackenzie River to Mackenzie Bay on the Beaufert Sea.

scholarly journals The Nazca Drift System – palaeoceanographic significance of a giant sleeping on the SE Pacific Ocean floor

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Gérôme Calvès ◽  
Alan Mix ◽  
Liviu Giosan ◽  
Peter D. Clift ◽  
Stéphane Brusset ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Bottom Current ◽  
Ocean Drilling Program ◽  
Nazca Plate ◽  
Ocean Drilling ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Nazca Ridge ◽  
Sea Currents

Abstract The evolution and resulting morphology of a contourite drift system in the SE Pacific oceanic basin is investigated in detail using seismic imaging and an age-calibrated borehole section. The Nazca Drift System covers an area of 204 500 km2 and stands above the abyssal basins of Peru and Chile. The drift is spread along the Nazca Ridge in water depths between 2090 and 5330 m. The Nazca Drift System was drilled at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1237. This deep-water drift overlies faulted oceanic crust and onlaps associated volcanic highs. Its thickness ranges from 104 to 375 m. The seismic sheet facies observed are associated with bottom current processes. The main lithologies are pelagic carbonates reflecting the distal position relative to South America and water depth above the carbonate compensation depth during Oligocene time. The Nazca Drift System developed under the influence of bottom currents sourced from the Circumpolar Deep Water and Pacific Central Water, and is the largest yet identified abyssal drift system of the Pacific Ocean, ranking third in all abyssal contourite drift systems globally. Subduction since late Miocene time and the excess of sediments and water associated with the Nazca Drift System may have contributed to the Andean orogeny and associated metallogenesis. The Nazca Drift System records the evolution in interactions between deep-sea currents and the eastward motion of the Nazca Plate through erosive surfaces and sediment remobilization.

Zooplankton communities in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, track large-scale climate forcing over the Pacific Ocean

2013 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 90-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingbo Li ◽  
Dave Mackas ◽  
Brian Hunt ◽  
Jake Schweigert ◽  
Evgeny Pakhomov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Climate Forcing ◽  
Strait Of Georgia ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Zooplankton Communities

scholarly journals Six new deep-water sternaspid species (Annelida, Sternaspidae) from the Pacific Ocean

ZooKeys ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 348 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Salazar-Vallejo ◽  
Galina Buzhinskaja
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

A new genus and species of marine crayfish, Palibythus magnificus, and new records of Palinurellus (Decapoda : Palinuridae) from the Pacific Ocean

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 685 ◽  
Author(s):  
PJF Davie
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Records ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
First Time

A new genus and species of marine crayfish, Palibythus magnificus, is described from deep water off Western Samoa. Palibythus is placed in the Palinuridae, among the 'Stridentes' group of genera, because of the well-developed stridulatory organ. It differs from all other known genera, except Palinurellus, by the flat triangular rostrum and the narrow thoracic sternum; Palinurellus, however, lacks a stridulatory organ. The relationships of Palinurellus are discussed and the Synaxidae is replaced in synonymy with the Palinuridae. Palinurellus wieneckii is recorded from New Guinea and Solomon Islands waters for the first time.

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