Glacio-isostatic adjustment modelling of improved relative sea-level observations in southwestern British Columbia, Canada

• Main Author: Gowan, Evan James
• Other Authors: James, Thomas S., Spence, George D.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: sea level; glacio-isostatic adjustment; mantle viscosity; Cordilleran ice sheet; Cascadia subduction zone; Wisconsin glaciation; UVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Earth and Ocean Sciences::Geophysics; UVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Earth and Ocean Sciences::Geodesy; UVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Earth and Ocean Sciences::Geology; British Columbia; Canada; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/263

In the late Pleistocene, most of British Columbia and northern Washington was covered by the Cordilleran ice sheet. The weight of the ice sheet caused up to several hundred metres of depression of the Earth’s crust. This caused relative sea level to be higher in southwestern British Columbia despite...