Journal article
Lake sediments as natural seismographs: Earthquake-related deformations (seismites) in central Canadian lakes
Abstract
Central Canada experiences numerous intraplate earthquakes but their recurrence and source areas remain obscure due to shortness of the instrumental and historic records. Unconsolidated fine-grained sediments in lake basins are ‘natural seismographs’ with the potential to record ancient earthquakes during the last 10,000years since the retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Many lake basins are cut into bedrock and are structurally-controlled by …
Authors
Doughty M; Eyles N; Eyles CH; Wallace K; Boyce JI
Journal
Sedimentary Geology, Vol. 313, , pp. 45–67
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 2014
DOI
10.1016/j.sedgeo.2014.09.001
ISSN
0037-0738