| Title | Current research part D: interior plains and Arctic Canada / Recherches en cours partie D: plaines intérieures et région arctique du Canada |
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| Author | Geological Survey of Canada |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Paper no. 88-1D, 1988, 152 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/122651  Open Access |
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| Year | 1988 |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English; French |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication contains the following
publications |
| File format | pdf |
| Area | Interior Platform; Arctic Archipelago |
| Subjects | stratigraphy; structural geology; geochemistry; sedimentology; igneous and metamorphic petrology; fossil fuels; surficial geology/geomorphology; marine geology; paleontology; geophysics; mathematical
and computational geology |
| Released | 1988 01 01; 2013 02 18 |
| Abstract | On northwestern Devon Island, 2 km of relative/y tectonically undisturbed Devonian strata are preserved. Dolomitic and clastic sediments of the Goose Fiord, Sutherland River and Prince Alfred
formations were deposited du ring a period of intermittent Earl y Devonian tectonism. A thin, unnamed formation, possibly referable to the Vendom Fiord Formation, and occurring uniformly beneath the Blue Fiord Formation, is recognized for the first
time from this area. A transition to quiescent, carbonate-shelf conditions is indicated by the Blue Fiord Formation, and in it afour-fold subdivision of alternating limestone and dolomite units can be recognized. The Bird Fiord Formation, also
subdivisible into four units, records a transition to more nearshore and fluvial conditions. The Middle-to-Upper Devonian Arctic Clastic Wedge is represented by the nonmarine Strathcona Fiord, Hecla Bay, Fram and Hell Gate formations. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 122651 |
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