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Nootka Fault
The Nootka Fault, upper left
LocationNootka Island
CountryCanada
Tectonics
StatusActive
Typetransform fault

The Nootka Fault is an active transform fault running southwest from Nootka Island, near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Nootka Fault

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The Nootka Fault is an active transform fault running southwest from Nootka Island, near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The Nootka Fault lies...

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Nootka Island

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Opitsaht etc.). Nootka Crisis Nootka Convention Nootka Fault, a local geologic fault. Fort San Miguel BC Namess/GeoBC entry "Nootka Island" "Atlas of...

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Nootka

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language or Nootka, spoken by the above Nootka Sound Nootka Island Nootka Fault Puccinellia nutkaensis, a grass species also called Nootka alkaligrass...

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List of fault zones

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This list covers all faults and fault-systems that are either geologically important[clarification needed] or connected to prominent seismic activity.[clarification...

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Juan de Fuca Plate

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northwest off the coast of Oregon), on the north by the Nootka Fault (running southwest off Nootka Island, near Vancouver Island, British Columbia) and along...

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Explorer Plate

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faults, the Sovanco Fracture Zone, separating the Explorer Plate from the Pacific Plate. To the southeast is another transform boundary, the Nootka Fault...

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Triple junction

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or transform fault (F) – and triple junctions can be described according to the types of plate margin that meet at them (e.g. Fault-Fault-Trench, Ridge-Ridge-Ridge...

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Alert Bay Volcanic Belt

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Columbia, Canada. The belt is now north of the Nootka Fault, but may have been directly above the fault at the time it last erupted. Eruptions of basaltic...

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Volcanism of Canada

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and seven million years ago to form a new plate boundary called the Nootka Fault. This rupture created the two small Juan de Fuca and Explorer plates...

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Alberni Inlet

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2024-02-24. Hyndman, R. D.; Riddihough, R. P.; Herzer, R. (1979-09-01). "The Nootka Fault Zone — a new plate boundary off western Canada". Geophysical Journal...

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Geology of the Pacific Northwest

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Nootka Fault to form the Explorer Plate, and there is no definitive consensus among geologists on the relation of the volcanoes north of that fault to...

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Explorer Ridge

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when the northern end of the Juan de Fuca Plate broke off along the Nootka Fault to form the Explorer Plate. This apparently had some important ramifications...

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1946 Vancouver Island earthquake

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Vancouver Island, corresponding to the projection of the underwater Nootka Fault on the British Columbia Coast, is also a possibility but an unlikely...

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1700 Cascadia earthquake

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northern California. The plate slipped an average of 20 meters (66 ft) along a fault rupture about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) long. The earthquake caused a...

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Canadian Cascade Arc

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formed at a descending plate edge. At the time of its formation, the Nootka Fault was probably coincident with the western end of the Alert Bay Belt, which...

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Pacific Northwest

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Robert Gray near Nootka Sound. Upon entering Nootka Sound, they found William Douglas and his ship Iphigenia. Conflict led to the Nootka Crisis, which was...

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George Vancouver

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Pacific Northwest. In 1789, the Nootka Crisis developed, and Spain and Britain came close to war over ownership of Nootka Sound on contemporary Vancouver...

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Haida Gwaii

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large trees, including the Sitka spruce, western red cedar, yellow cedar (Nootka cypress), shore pine, western hemlock, mountain hemlock, western yew and...

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Alaska

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Pacific Northwest. In 1789, a Spanish settlement and fort were built in Nootka Sound. These expeditions gave names to places such as Valdez, Bucareli Sound...

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Katmai National Park and Preserve

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communities. Common wildflowers that grow in the park include beachhead iris, nootka lupine, and woolly geranium. Prehistoric artifacts have been found dating...

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Battle of the Little Bighorn

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he was drunk and a coward. The court found Reno's conduct to be without fault. After the battle, Thomas Rosser, James O'Kelly, and others continued to...

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1918 Vancouver Island earthquake

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between the plates in the area. The source of the earthquake was the Nootka transform fault, which separates the Juan de Fuca and Explorer plates and has been...

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Northwest Passage

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journeying through the Pacific, to make an attempt from the west, Cook began at Nootka Sound in April 1778. He headed north along the coastline, charting the lands...

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Mount Mazama

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extension marked by fault zones, including north–south-trending normal faults such as the Annie Spring fault within the West Klamath Lake fault zone, which might...

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Mau Mau rebellion

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morally. There are living claimants and it most certainly was not their fault that the documentary evidence that seems to support their claims was for...

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