Hypothesis for a submarine landslide and cohesionless sediment flows resulting from a 17th century earthquake-triggered landslide in Quebec,Canada |
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| Authors: | C T Schafer John N Smith |
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| Institution: | (1) Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Insitute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 1006, B2Y 4A2 Dartmouth;(2) Atlantic Oceanographic Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 1006, B2Y 4A2 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Textural isotopic and microfossil data from two gravity cores obtained in Saguenay Fjord, Quebec, suggest that a distinctive sandy clay bed was deposited as the result of a major landslide in the Saguenay River basin. Pb-210 dating of the cores indicate that the bed is of similar age to the magnitude 7 earthquake of February 5, 1663. The slide involved sensitive marine clays and may have occurred in two stages. Slide sediments carried into the Saguenay River channel were probably reworked and subsequently transported down the Fjord basin as two distinct cohesionless mass flows. Fine clay laminae that overlie the older mass flow bed record the modulation of depositional processes by tidal currents for several weeks after this event. |
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