Editing Hecate Strait (section)

==Geology==
During the [[Last Glacial Period|last ice age]], the seafloor in this area was a wide coastal plain stretching south to the [[Olympic Peninsula]] and including what is now [[Queen Charlotte Sound (Canada)|Queen Charlotte Sound]].<ref name=civca>{{cite web |url=http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/haida/happr01e.shtml |title=During the end of the last ice age between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, events resulted in very low water levels around Haida Gwaii. What is now Hecate Strait, the body of water that separates Haida Gwaii from the mainland, was for the most part dry land. Throughout this area of dry land, there were lakes and small rivers draining north and south to the Pacific Ocean. Soil samples from Hecate Strait indicate that many areas were habitable in the last ice age. After 10,000 years ago, the melting glaciers contributed to a rise in the sea level that resulted in a flooding of the Northwest Coast, temporarily creating beach lines high above today's high tide marks. |work=Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation }}</ref>