Structure, stability, and tsunami hazard associated with a rock slope in Knight Inlet, British Columbia

• Published in: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
• Main Authors: Zeyl, D. P., Stead, D., Sturzenegger, M., Bornhold, B. D., Clague, J. J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: High Rock; Wedge Rock; First Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1425-2015; https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/15/1425/2015/

Rockfalls and rockslides during the past 12 000 years have deposited bouldery debris cones on the seafloor beneath massive rock slopes throughout the inner part of Knight Inlet. The 885 m high rock slope, located across from a former First Nations village destroyed in the late 1500s by a slide-induc...