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Author : Barrie, J.V.; and Conway, K.W.
Date : 2000.
Title : A preliminary interpretation of surficial marine geology of central and northern Strait of Georgia, British Columbia.
Publication : Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 2000
Issue : A21.
Page(s) : 7 p.
Abstract
Six acoustic and sedimentary facies have been mapped in the central and northern Strait of Georgia that reflect the late Quaternary development of the region. During the Vashon Stade of the Fraser Glaciation, a Quaternary, preglacial deposit that filled most of the basin was eroded by glacial ice moving south down the strait. Ice-proximal and ice-distal glaciomarine deposition over glacial till occurred during the rapid deglaciation of the strait with development of marine conditions by 12.4 ka BP. Sea level fell during deglaciation from a relative high stand and continued to fall after all ice had left the strait reaching a low stand sometime after 10 ka BP. Holocene deposition within the strait has been dominated by the Fraser River plume and coastal and nearshore processes.
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