Seismic reflection and geological studies conducted on southern Vancouver Island during 1984 show that the region has sustained considerable shortening above a widespread decollement zone. Beneath Wrangellia, a thick interval of possibly underplated pre-Upper Miocene oceanic crust overlies the modern subducting Juan de Fuca Plate. The latter is clearly seen on all record sections and comprises an undef armed layered sequence resting upon presumed oceanic crust. The Leech River Fault is identified as a surf ace dipping towards the north at 3.5°. Tleneath the fault the Eocene Metchosin Volcanics and Sooke Gabbro are seen to overlie a success ion that may have its correlatives in the core zone Olympic Mountains of northern Wash ington. Resume Des leves de sismique-reflexion et geologiques eff ectues dans le sud de l'ile de Vancouver en 1984 montrent que cette region a subi un retrecissement considerable au-dessus d'une vaste zone de decollement. Au-dessous de Wrangellia, un epais intervalle de cror1te oceanique, peut-etre sus-jacent a une plaque et forme avant le Miocene superieur, recouvre l'actuelle plaque de subduction de Juan de Fuca. On voit clairement cette derniere dans taus les diagrammes bases sur les enregistrements; elle est constituee d'une sequence stratifiee non def ormee, reposant sur la cror 1te oceanique hypothetique. On a identifie la faille de Leech River comme etant une faille superficielle dont le pendage est de 35° vers le nord. Au-dessous de la faille, les roches volcaniques de Metchosin et le gabbro de Sooke d'age Eocene recouvrent une succession dont les e1ements corre1atif s se trouvent sans doute dans la zone centrale des monts Olympiques, dans le nord de l'Etat de Washington.
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