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: D. P. van Zeyl, D. Stead, M. Sturzenegger, B. D. Bornhold, J. J. Clague
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2015
• Subjects: geo; envir; High Rock; Wedge Rock; First Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1425-2015; http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/15/1425/2015/nhess-15-1425-2015.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/0c9ff4f4a6774529980810fea82af658

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...