Work Channel

Work Channel formerly Wark Channel is a fjord in the British [Columbia Coast|North Coast] region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It lies to the northeast of the Tsimpsean Peninsula. It was named about 1837 by officers of the Hudson's [Bay Company] after John Work, born John Wark. It was first charted in 1793 by James [Johnstone |James Johnstone] and Robert Barrie, two of George Vancouver's officers during his 1791-95 expedition.

Geology

This lineament is not a discrete fault but a crustal boundary separating two contrasting metamorphic structural domains. The eastern side records a younger Eocene low-pressure high-temperature metamorphism, whereas the western side preserves an older Jurassic metamorphic gradient associated with crustal burial and thrusting.