Nootka Fault

The Nootka Fault, upper left

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

Geology

The Nootka Fault lies between the Explorer Plate in the north and Juan de Fuca Plate in south. These are remnants of the once vast Farallon Plate. The fault is at the triple junction of the North American, Explorer, and Juan de Fuca plates.

Near the Nootka Fault is an active undersea mud volcano named Maquinna.^[1]

Footnotes

1. Riedel, M.; Riedel, M.; Kelly,, D. S.; Delaney, J. R.; Spence, G. D.; Hyndman, R. D.; Hyndman, R. D.; Mayer, L.; Calder, B.; Lilley, M. D.; Olson, E. O.; Schrenk, M. O.; Coffin, R. (Fall Meeting 2001), Discovery of an Active Submarine Mud Volcano Along the Nootka Fault West of Vancouver Island, American Geophysical Union, Bibcode:2001AGUFMOS12B0428R Check date values in: |date= (help)

Bibliography

• "The Nootka Fault Zone — a new plate boundary off western Canada", Geophysical Journal International, Royal Astronomical Society, 58 (3): 667–683, September 1979, Bibcode:1979GeoJI..58..667H, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1979.tb04801.x