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Canada's Continental Margins and Offshore Petroleum Exploration — Memoir 4, 1975
Pages 701-721
Pacific Facing Margins

The Western Canadian Continental Margin

R. L. Chase, D. L. Tiffin, J. W. Murray

Abstract

The current state of knowledge on the tectonics of the Canadian Pacific continental margin is summarized. This is an active area of the earth’s crust marking the juncture of the Pacific, American and Juan de Fuca plates. Major tectonic and physiographic features of the area are described. A bathymetric compilation of the Canadian continental margin is presented and further illustrated by continuous seismic profiles over typical areas. A change in velocity and direction of the Juan de Fuca plate about 5 Ma B.P. has resulted in a change in movement of the triple junction along the continental margin between the periods 10 to 5 Ma B.P., and 5 Ma B.P. to the present.


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