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Poster

GeoMap Vancouver
Geological Map of the Vancouver Metropolitan Area
Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3511. 1997

Single sheet:
English: 154 X 92 cm;
French: 145 X 85 cm;
20$ (inside Canada)
26$ (outside Canada)
plus taxes and shipping charges.

GeoMap Vancouver is available from:
Geological Survey of Canada
Sales and Publications
625 Robson St.
Vancouver, B.C.
V6B 5J3
Tel. (604) 666-0271 Fax. (604) 666-1337
email address: gscvan@nrcan.gc.ca
website: http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/org/vancouver/bookstore/index_e.php

By: Robert J.W. Turner and John J. Clague;
Bertrand J. Groulx, J. Murray Journeay

Design and cartography: Bertrand J. Groulx
Digital cartography by the GSC Pacific GIS group:
Robert Cocking, Andrew Makepeace, Kazuharu Shimamura, Sonia Talwar

Helpful reviews of draft versions of GeoMap Vancouver were provided by John Cassidy, Sandy Colvine, Ron DiLabio, Julian Dunster, Kathy Dunster, John Gartner, Bob Gerath, Susan Heming, Cathie Hickson, Steve Kellas, Nancy Knight, Rosemary Knight, Jack Mollard, Peter Mustard, Jim Roddick, and Alan Whitehead. Bev Vanlier provided editorial assistance.


This map is based on the following Geological Survey of Canada bedrock and surficial geology maps:

Armstrong, J.E. and Hicock, S.R.
Surficial geology, New Westminister, British Columbia. Map 1484A (1980).
Surficial geology, Vancouver, British Columbia. Map 1486A (1979).

Amstrong, J.E.
Surficial geology, Chilliwack (west half), British Columbia. Map 1487A (1980).
Surficial geology, Mission, British Columbia. Map 1485A (1980).

Journeay, J.M. and Monger, J.W.H.
Geology and crustal structure of the southern Coast and Intermontane belts, southern Canadian Cordillera, British Columbia. 1:500,000-scale map, in Open File 2490 (1995).

Roddick, J.A.
Geology, Pitt Lake (Vancouver, east half), British Columbia. Map 1151A (1965).
Geology, Vancouver North, British Columbia. Map 1152A, (1965).
Geology, Coquitlam, British Columbia. Map 1153A, (1965).


Other publications on geology, geological hazards, and groundwater of the Vancouver metropolitan area:

Armstrong, J.E. 1990. Vancouver geology. Geological Association of Canada, Cordilleran Section, Vancouver, B.C.

Armstrong, J.E. 1984. Environmental and engineering applications of the surficial geology of the Fraser Lowland, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Paper 83-23.

Clague, J.J. 1996. Paleoseismology and seismic hazards, southwestern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 494.

Halstead, E.C. 1986. Ground water supply -- Fraser Lowland, British Columbia. Environment Canada, National Hydrology Research Institute (NHRI) Paper No. 26.

Journeay, J.M. and Monger, J.W.H., 1997, Geoscience library for the southern Coast and Intermontane belts, S.W. British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3276.

Monger, J.W.H., 1994. Geology and geological hazards of the Vancouver region, southwestern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 481.

Turner, R.J.W., Clague, J.J., and Groulx, B.J. 1996. Geoscape Vancouver -- living with our geological landscape. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3309, poster.

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