Phanerozoic bedrock geology, Vendom Fiord area, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
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Abstract
The Phanerozoic bedrock geology of Vendom Fiord map area (NTS 49D) features unmetamorphosed sedimentary rocks of mostly Lower Cambrian to Upper Devonian and Paleogene ages exposed within 1) the central Ellesmere Fold Belt, 2) an intensely faulted portion of the Arctic Platform, and 3) the an intervening regional synclinorium (Schei Syncline) which can be traced from central Ellesmere Island to Grinnell Peninsula on western Devon Island. The Paleozoic succession thickens westward from a feather edge where the Lower Cambrian lies nonconformably on Paleoproterozic granulites of the Inglefield Mobile belt (1.98 to 1.75 Ga) to a thickness exceeding 10 km under the western map edge. Prominent depositional features of the lower Paleozoic include shelf to basin facies changes involving nine formations of Upper Ordovician to Lower Devonian ages, biostromal carbonate buildups of Silurian age containing migrated hydrocarbons, important unconformities in Pragian and Emsian strata that provide a late Caledonian uplift history for south eastern Ellesmere Island, and Middle to Upper Devonian foreland clastic formations that are the depositional record of the Ellesmerian Orogeny. The Schei Syncline and Central Ellesmere Fold Belt are Devonian-Early Carboniferous tectonic features produced during the Ellesmerian deformation. Subsequent planation has formed a regional angular unconformity with Upper Paleocene to Middle Eocene Eureka Sound Group sediments deposited above this surface and preserved now in numerous widely scattered fault-bounded outliers. These strata are the depositional response to phases of compressive and strike-slip deformation during the Eurekan Orogeny, also related to more distant events including sea floor spreading in Baffin Bay and the plate motions of Greenland. Commercially significant coal resources are exposed in Eocene strata near the south shore of Stenkul Fiord.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.036 | 0.002 |
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