page_title: Loss Creek
hierarchical_section_title: Loss Creek
caption_attribution_description: English: Loss Creek at the point that Noyse Creek empties into it. This image was made by combining three exposures into a HDR image, and then developing it into an 8 bit image.
context_page_description: Loss Creek is a river on southern Vancouver Island that flows from a point north of River Jordan, British Columbia due west to Sombrio Beach, mostly following an unusually long, straight, narrow, and steep-sided valley. This valley is the surface trace of the Leech River Fault, a major regional fault that marks the contact between the oceanic basalts of the Crescent Terrane to the south, and the metamorphic rocks of the Pacific Rim Terrane to the north. The Leech River fault is straight because it was originally a strike-slip fault, but now it is being thrust under Vancouver Island. As the Pacific Rim rock is uplifted and exposed it rapidly erodes; this releases the occasional gold deposit, which then collects in placer deposits in Loss Creek.
context_section_description: Loss Creek is a river on southern Vancouver Island that flows from a point north of River Jordan, British Columbia due west to Sombrio Beach (southeast of Port Renfrew), mostly following an unusually long, straight, narrow, and steep-sided valley. This valley is the surface trace of the Leech River Fault, a major regional fault that marks the contact between the oceanic basalts of the Crescent Terrane (part of Siletzia) to the south, and the metamorphic rocks of the Pacific Rim Terrane to the north.  The Leech River fault is straight because it was originally a strike-slip fault (moving horizontally), but now it is being thrust under Vancouver Island.  As the Pacific Rim rock is uplifted and exposed it rapidly erodes; this releases the occasional gold deposit, which then collects in placer deposits in Loss Creek.
caption: Loss Creek at the point that Noyse Creek empties into it
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