Grenville Channel

Grenville Channel is a strait on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located between Pitt Island and the mainland to the south of Prince Rupert[1]. The channel is part of the Inside Passage shipping route, about 45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) long and is 0.2 nautical miles (0.37 km; 0.23 mi) wide at the narrowest part[2].

Grenville Channel
Grenville Channel photographed by Frank La Roche in the late 1890s
Grenville Channel
Coordinates53°37′00″N 129°43′00″W

The Grenville Channel Fault that forms the channel dates back to the Cretaceous[3]. Both sides of the channel are mountainous and densely wooded[2], and a linear magnetic anomaly runs parallel to the channel south of 51"30'N[4].

See also

References
  1. "Grenville Channel". BC Geographical Names.
  2. "Chart 3772, 3773, Grenville Channel". Sailing Directions, British Columbia Coast, (Northern Portion). II (Ninth Edition): 158–159. 1983.
  3. Nelson J, Diakow L, van Staal C, Chipley D (2013). "Ordovician volcanogenic sulphides in the southern Alexander terrane, coastal NW British Columbia: geology, Pb isotopic signature, and a case for correlation with Appalachian and Scandinavian deposits" (PDF). British Columbia Geological Survey. 2013 (1): 13–33. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  4. Chardon D, Andronicos C, Holliste L (April 1999). "Large-scale transpressive shear zone patterns and displacements within magmatic arcs: The Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia". TECTONICS. 18 (2): 278–292. Retrieved 2020-06-23.


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