Phanerozoic bedrock geology, Strathcona Fiord area, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
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Abstract
The Phanerozoic bedrock geology of Strathcona Fiord map area (NTS 49E) features unmetamorphosed sedimentary rocks of Lower Cambrian to Upper Devonian and Triassic to Eocene ages exposed within 1) the central Ellesmere Fold Belt, 2) overlying Sverdrup Basin, 3) a regional synclinorium (Schei Syncline) which can be traced from central Ellesmere Island to Grinnell Peninsula on western Devon Island, and in the east 4) a narrow, intensely faulted portion of the Arctic Platform. 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 9 km under the centre of the map. Prominent depositional features include shelf to basin facies changes involving ten formations of Upper Ordovician to Lower Devonian ages, biostromal carbonates 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 Lower Triassic to Middle Eocene strata deposited above this surface and preserved now in numerous widely scattered fault-bounded outliers. The Triassic to Cretaceous succession, up to 1500 m thick in the northwest, represents the eastern margin of the Sverdrup Basin. In addition, rift-related redbeds of the Canyon Fiord Formation and overlying Permian sandstones are likely present in the northwestern subsurface. The Eureka Sound Group (Maastrichtian to middle Eocene) is preserved mostly east of the Sverdrup Basin and attains a thickness of about 4000 m in the north central Strathcona Fiord area. These sediments 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 between Strathcona and Bay fiords.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.036 | 0.001 |
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