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New evidence of slope instability in the Outardes Bay delta area, Quebec, Canada
Authors:M. J. Duchesne   B. F. Long   R. Urgeles  J. Locat
Affiliation:(1) Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 880 Chemin, Sainte-Foy, Qu?bec, G1S 2L2, Canada;(2) Departament d'Estratigrafia i Paleontologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Campus de Pedralbes, 08071 Barcelona, Spain;(3) D?partement de G?ologie et de G?nie G?ologique, Facult? des Sciences et de G?nie, Universit? Laval, Sainte-Foy, Qu?bec, G1K 7P4, Canada
Abstract:The Outardes Bay delta constitutes one of the best sites to study the formation of failure deposits in a modern lowstand environment. These deposits are located in a pseudo-shelf-edge position along the northern part of the Laurentian Channel in the St. Lawrence Estuary. The site has been investigated over the past 20 years with a Raytheon model RTT1000 boomer (3.5 kHz, 400 J) on the shelf, and most recently with a Simrad model EM 1000 multibeam sonar (95 kHz) on the slope to provide high-resolution seismic and bathymetric data. The seismic data show wavy, chaotic and contorted reflectors which are typical in marine environments characterised by instability features. The multibeam sonar data have revealed many slope instability features such as creep folds, channel incisions, debris flows, and rotational slide scars. Thus, these interpreted features are in direct relationship with the seismic interpretation of the data collected upslope. These geomorphological and geophysical signatures express both past and present sedimentological processes. Some of the mass movement signatures observed in the surveyed area are believed to be related with the great MS~7 Charlevoix earthquake in 1663.
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