The life and times of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet around the southern Fraser Plateau, British Columbia
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Published:January 01, 2014
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Tracy A. Brennand, Olav B. Lian, Andrew J. Perkins*, 2014. "The life and times of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet around the southern Fraser Plateau, British Columbia", Trials and Tribulations of Life on an Active Subduction Zone: Field Trips in and around Vancouver, Canada, Shahin Dashtgard, Brent Ward
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This field guide focuses on glacial history, dynamics and processes, and postglacial landscape adjustments in the southern Fraser Plateau region. Located between the Coast and Columbia Mountains in south-central British Columbia, Canada, the southern Fraser Plateau was near the geographic center of the last (marine oxygen isotope stage [MIS] 2) Cordilleran Ice Sheet (CIS). The transition from cold to warm-based ice during MIS 2 is recorded in till sedimentology and structural geology. The perceived absence of large deglacial recessional moraines has been used as evidence that ice regionally stagnated because of a rapid rise in equilibrium line altitude. However,...
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Trials and Tribulations of Life on an Active Subduction Zone: Field Trips in and around Vancouver, Canada

This volume, prepared for the 126th GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, offers guides to trips in the Cascadia subduction zone. The active tectonism of the region has had a profound effect on the bedrock and surficial geology of the area, and on human interactions with the geologic environment. These themes are reflected in the trips associated with the meeting. Trip topics relate to bedrock geology, volcanism and Cordilleran glaciation and deglaciation, as well as human interaction with the natural environment. The trips that discuss human interaction cover archaeology, natural hazards and the urban environment, as well as the role that local geology and tectonism have played in shaping colonization of the region since the last glaciation. The field guide volume has something for everyone!
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- British Columbia
- Canada
- Cenozoic
- clastic sediments
- Coast Mountains
- Cordilleran ice sheet
- deglaciation
- eskers
- field trips
- fluvial features
- geophysical methods
- glacial features
- glacial geology
- glacial lakes
- glaciation
- ground-penetrating radar
- isostasy
- lacustrine environment
- lake sediments
- lakes
- landform evolution
- landscapes
- meltwater
- MIS 2
- moraines
- orientation
- paleoenvironment
- paleohydrology
- Pleistocene
- Quaternary
- radar methods
- reconstruction
- resistivity
- road log
- sediments
- till
- Western Canada
- Fraser Plateau
- south-central British Columbia
- Columbia Mountains
- Thompson Valley
- Lake Thompson
- Jesmond Valley