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The Landscape of Puget Sound: Tectonics and Glaciers
Courtesy Derek Booth
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1) Big hole between the mountains
2) Advance outwash plain
3) TroughsHood CanalPuget SoundLk WashingtonKent Valley
4) Flutes
E-W cross-section
Puget Lowland Landscape Elements
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Tectonic setting of the Puget Lowland
San Andreas fault
Subducting ofJuan de Fuca plate
Resulting N-S shortening in the Puget Lowland
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Crescent Fm
Quaternary
Blakeley Fm
Blakely Harbor Fm
Eocene
Seattle basinSeattle uplift Kingston arch
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South North
After Johnson et al., 1994
Bedrock Structure through Puget Sound
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Seattle fault zone
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Topographic expression of the Seattle fault
Bedrock highs
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Scarp of Utsalady Fault – Whidbey Island
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1) Big hole between the mountains
2) Advance outwash plain
3) Troughs4) Flutes5) Cross-warps
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Booth, et al, 2003
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K. Troost
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Photographer: Roger Slatt University of OklahomaCaption: This view of the Athabasca Glacier shows depositional features as well as erosional features. The glacier is a feature of Alberta's Jasper National Park and is fed by the Columbia Ice Field.
Lateral Moraine
Terminal Moraine
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Recessional Moraine
Central Whidbey Island Lidar
Outwash Channels
Kettles (holes from melted ice blocks)
Drumlins, Flutes
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Double Bluff Section
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Vashon till at Perkins Lane
2m
Photo by K. Troost
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2) Advance outwash fill plain, Puget Lowland
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Flow at snout of Nigardsbreen glacier, Norway
Water flowing into moulin
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3) Troughs (subglacial channelways)—products of glacial meltwater
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3) Troughs (subglacial channelways)—products of glacial meltwater
= troughs filled in bylate-recessional orpostglacial alluviumor mudflows
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3) Troughs (subglacial channelways)—products of glacial meltwater
= troughs filled in bylate-recessional orpostglacial alluviumor mudflows
Gradients of subglacial water flow
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1) Big hole between the mountains
2) Advance outwash plain
3) Troughs4) Flutes5) Cross-warps
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4) Flutes = glacial scour
24 kmDEM from Haugerud, 2001
PresenterPresentation NotesShaded-relief image
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Oblique aerial view of flutes around Echo Lake
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Landscape element #5: Cross-warps
Image from Seattle-Area Geologic Mapping Project
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Slide Number 1Slide Number 2Slide Number 3Slide Number 4Slide Number 5Slide Number 6Slide Number 7Scarp of Utsalady Fault – Whidbey IslandSlide Number 9Slide Number 10Slide Number 11Slide Number 12Slide Number 13Central Whidbey Island LidarDouble Bluff SectionSlide Number 16Slide Number 17Slide Number 18Slide Number 19Slide Number 20Slide Number 21Slide Number 22Slide Number 234) Flutes = �glacial scourSlide Number 25Slide Number 26Slide Number 27