Frontal ridge slope failure at the northern Cascadia margin: Margin-normal fault and gas hydrate control

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 967-970

  López, Caroll ^a   Spence, George ^a   Hyndman, Roy ^a,b   Kelley, Deborah ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM SIMULATING REFLECTOR; CASCADIA; COLLAPSE STRUCTURES; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DOWNHOLES; EARTHQUAKE SHAKING; FREE GAS; GLIDE PLANES; HIGH VELOCITY; HYDRATE CONTROL; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; NORMAL FAULTS; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOGRAPHS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; RIDGE IMAGE; SEA FLOOR; SEDIMENT CORE; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SINGLE-CHANNEL; SLOPE FAILURE;

BATHYMETRY; HYDRATION; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SLOPE STABILITY;

GAS HYDRATES;

ACCRETION; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; GAS HYDRATE; NORMAL FAULT; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT CORE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SLOPE FAILURE; STRONG MOTION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; CASCADIA MARGIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

EID: 78249234127     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31136.1     Document Type: Article

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