| Title | Introduction to the "Circum-Arctic Palynological Event Stratigraphy" (CAPE) series of papers |
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| Author | Bujak, J; Fensome, R; Mangerud, G; Williams, G |
| Source | Atlantic Geology vol. 57, 2021 p. 1-5, https://doi.org/10.4138/atlgeol.2021.001  Open Access |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20200615 |
| Publisher | Atlantic Geoscience Society |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Yukon; British Columbia; Alberta; Saskatchewan; Manitoba; Ontario; Quebec; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador; Northwest
Territories; Yukon; Nunavut; Canada |
| NTS | 15; 16; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 35; 36; 37; 38; 39; 45; 46; 47; 48; 49; 55; 56; 57; 58; 59; 65; 66; 67; 68; 69; 75; 76; 77; 78; 79; 85; 86; 87; 88; 89; 95; 96; 97; 98; 99; 105; 106; 107; 115; 116; 117; 120; 340;
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| Area | Canada; United States of America; Russian Federation; Finland; Sweden; Norway; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Greenland; Denmark; Iceland |
| Lat/Long WENS | -180.0000 180.0000 90.0000 60.0000 |
| Subjects | paleontology; stratigraphy; Nature and Environment; Science and Technology; palynology; palynomorphs; palynostratigraphy; systematic palynology; taxonomy; microfossils; spores; pollen; biostratigraphy;
paleoenvironment; paleoclimatology; fossil zones; paleogeography; Circum-Arctic; Acritarchs; Chitinozoans; Bisaccates; Dinoflagellates; Angiosperms; Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Mesozoic; Paleozoic; Permian; Carboniferous; Devonian; Silurian |
| Illustrations | location maps; biostratigraphic charts; tables |
| Program | GEM2:
Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals TransGEM |
| Released | 2021 01 24 |
| Abstract | Palynomorphs are one of the few groups of fossils that provide biostratigraphic control in marine to nonmarine rocks and can be applied as proxies for paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic
interpretations. Their utility is enhanced by their microscopic size, which is usually less than 200 micrometres; they are thus easily recovered from small rock samples. They occur throughout the Phanerozoic and are therefore invaluable in refining
biostratigraphic control of Arctic successions in Alaska, Arctic Canada, Greenland, northern Europe, and northern Russia. The objective of the Circum-Arctic Palynological Event (CAPE) Stratigraphy series of papers is to integrate data published on
Arctic palynomorphs to delineate palynological events (palynoevents) across the Arctic for the Silurian to Cenozoic. Once the series of papers is complete, the data will also be used to compile a TimeScale Creator datapack that can be updated and
calibrated on an ongoing basis. Palynoevents include taxon originations (first occurrences or FOs) and extinctions (last occurrences, or LOs) and some abundance events. The palynoevents are correlated with established chronostratigraphic horizons
such as bases of ammonoid zones or stages, and hence their chronostratigraphy is independent of the absolute time scale in millions of years. In addition to the palynostratigraphic papers, the series includes a paper detailing the paleogeography of
the circum-Arctic regions, including informative maps, as well as a paper providing a palynological perspective of the Cenozoic shift from greenhouse to icehouse conditions. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This article introduced a set of papers that collectively develop a scheme of palynological events for the Silurian to recent interval (443 million years
ago top the present) for the modern-day Arctic.. Palynology is the study of organic microfossils (including vascular plant spores, pollen and dinoflagellate cysts), which occur in profusion in many sedimentary rocks and events such as species
originations and extinctions can provide milestones in sedimentary rocks that can be used for dating and correlation of the rocks. The age framework thus produced can be used to better understand geological evolution and petroleum and mineral
systems. The set of papers also includes a ground-breaking article with paleogeographic reconstructions from a north-polar projection and an article on climate change over the past 50,000 years from a palynological perspective. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 327879 |
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