Resources for the Malaspina Cut Project
| Click here to access panoramic and close-up photographs of various geological features of the Malaspina Cut |
| easy to read | more difficult to read | quite difficult to read |
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Topic |
Source |
Reference
/ location |
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A
summary of Vancouver
Island geology |
Steven
Earle |
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Information
on the volcanic rocks of the Malaspina Cut |
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Sea-floor
volcanic rocks |
Marshak |
Sections
6.9 and 9.6 in the text |
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Basalt |
U.
C. London |
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Karmutsen
basalt within Strathcona Park |
B.C.
Geological Survey |
http://www.empr.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/ Publications/InfoCirc/IC1995-07/vflood.html |
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Karmutsen
geology |
Yorath
et al. |
A copy is available
in the classroom |
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Displacement
of the Karmutsen rocks |
Yole
and Irving |
A copy is available
in the classroom |
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Information
on the sedimentary rocks of the Malaspina Cut |
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Sedimentary
rocks |
Marshak |
Sections
7.8 and 7.9 in the text |
| Geology of the Nanaimo Group | Steven Earle | nanaimo-group.pdf |
| Nanaimo Group and the Wellington Seam | Gwyneth Cathyl-Bickford | http://www.westwatermining.com/thesis/index.html (This is a UBC MSc thesis, so its quite technical. There is a lot of background material in Chapter 2.) |
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Significance
of the Malaspina Cut |
Peter
Mustard |
mustard-ft.pdf
(careful, its a large file - if you're having problems, right-click on the
link and then choose the "save target as" option, then open it
from your computer) |
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Information
on the history of the rocks of the Malaspina Cut |
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| Mountain building, faulting and unconformities |
Marshak |
Chapter
11 and section 12.6 in the text |
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Magnetic
data from the Malaspina Cut (evidence in support of the Baja BC
hypothesis) |
Enkin
et al., 2001 |
enkin.pdf
(careful, its a large
file
- if you're having problems, right-click on the link and then choose the
"save target as" option, then open it from your computer) |
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Evidence
against the Baja BC hypothesis |
Mahoney
et al., 1999 |
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