| Title | Foxe Platform and Basin Tectono-Sedimentary Element, northeast Canada |
| |
| Author | Lavoie, D ; Pinet,
N; Zhang, S |
| Source | Sedimentary successions of the Arctic region and their hydrocarbon prospectivity; by Drachev, S S (ed.); Brekke, H (ed.); Henriksen, E (ed.); Moore, T (ed.); Geological Society Memoir 57, 2021 p. 1-6,
https://doi.org/10.1144/M57-2016-27 |
| Year | 2021 |
| Alt Series | Earth Sciences Sector, Contribution Series 20130358 |
| Publisher | Geological Society of London |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf; html |
| Province | Nunavut; Northern offshore region |
| NTS | 25; 26; 27; 35; 36; 37; 45; 46; 47 |
| Area | Foxe Basin; Hudson Strait; Hudson Bay; Prince Charles Island; Baffin Island; Southampton Island; Melville Peninsula; Ungava Peninsula |
| Lat/Long WENS | -88.0000 -64.0000 71.0000 62.0000 |
| Subjects | tectonics; stratigraphy; fossil fuels; Nature and Environment; Science and Technology; sedimentary basins; basin evolution; tectonic elements; tectonic history; rifting; crustal uplift; orogenesis;
depositional history; bedrock geology; basement geology; lithology; sedimentary rocks; clastics; sandstones; carbonates; dolostones; limestones; black shales; reefs; structural features; faults, normal; petroleum resources; petroleum exploration;
hydrocarbon potential; exploration wells; thermal maturation; sedimentary environments; reservoir rocks; traps; source rocks; lithostratigraphy; Foxe Platform; Arctic Platform; Hudson Strait Platform; Hudson Strait Basin; Hudson Bay Platform; Hudson
Bay Basin; Foster Bay Formation; Akpatok Formation; Amadjuak Formation; Frobisher Bay Formation; Ship Point Formation; Turner Cliffs Formation; Gallery Formation; Franklinian Orogen; Rowley Well; Seals; Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Paleozoic; Silurian;
Ordovician; Cambrian; Precambrian |
| Illustrations | location maps; geoscientific sketch maps; cross-sections; correlation sections; geochronological charts |
| Program | GEM: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Hudson / Foxe Bay Sedimentary Basins |
| Released | 2021 05 04 |
| Abstract | The Foxe Platform and Basin Tectono-Sedimentary Element (TSE) is an ovoid-shaped, predominantly marine basin located in the Canadian Arctic. The Paleozoic sedimentary succession (Cambrian-Silurian)
unconformably overlies the Precambrian basement and reaches a maximum measured thickness of slightly over 500 m in the only exploration well drilled in this basin. The Lower Paleozoic Foxe Platform and Basin TSE is surrounded by Precambrian basement,
and by the Paleozoic Arctic Platform to the north and by the Paleozoic-Mesozoic (?) Hudson Bay Strait Platform and Basin to the south. The Paleozoic succession consists of a Cambrian clastic-dominated interval overlain by Ordovician-lower Silurian
predominantly shallow-marine carbonate. Other than a single well drilled in the northern part of the basin, no subsurface information is available. Thermally immature Upper Ordovician organic-matter-rich calcareous black shales have been mapped on
the onshore extension of the basin to the SE. Potential hydrocarbon reservoirs consist of Cambrian porous coarse-grained clastics, as well as Upper Ordovician dolostones and reefs. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This contribution is part of a major synthesis of Arctic Sedimentary Basins to be released as a monograph of the Geological Society of London (planned
for 2015). The recent new data for the Foxe basin generated through the Hudson Bay / Foxe sedimentary basins project of the GEM 1 program are synthesized in that manuscript. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 293398 |
|
|