Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and redefinition of the age of lithostratigraphic units on northeastern Melville Peninsula, Nunavut
Northeastern Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, preserves the stratigraphic record of the northwestern margin of the Foxe Basin. The Ordovician sequence on the peninsula includes the Lower Ordovician Ship Point Formation and Upper Ordovician Frobisher Bay, Amadjuak, Akpatok, and Foster Bay formati...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/cjes-2013-0009 2024-05-19T07:40:30+00:00 Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and redefinition of the age of lithostratigraphic units on northeastern Melville Peninsula, Nunavut Zhang, Shunxin Vernal, Anne de 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2013-0009 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjes-2013-0009 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjes-2013-0009 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences volume 50, issue 8, page 808-825 ISSN 0008-4077 1480-3313 journal-article 2013 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2013-0009 2024-05-02T06:51:24Z Northeastern Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, preserves the stratigraphic record of the northwestern margin of the Foxe Basin. The Ordovician sequence on the peninsula includes the Lower Ordovician Ship Point Formation and Upper Ordovician Frobisher Bay, Amadjuak, Akpatok, and Foster Bay formations. Their biostratigraphic ages and correlations are poorly understood; in particular it is unclear whether the organic-rich “Boas River Formation” exists on the peninsula. Following extensive sampling of these stratigraphic units, studies of numerous conodont elements from both outcrops and rubble at about 60 localities have established five conodont assemblages through the five lithostratigraphic units on the peninsula. Oepikodus communis – Jumudontus gananda Assemblage in the Ship Point Formation is correlated to the Reutterodus andinus Zone in the uppermost Ibexian, Lower Ordovician. The other four assemblages from the Upper Ordovician are as follows: Appalachignathus delicatulus – Polyplacognathus ramosus – Belodina confluens in the Frobisher Bay Formation correlated to lower B. confluens Zone in the upper Chatfieldian; Belodina confluens – Periodon grandis in the Amadjuak Formation to the upper B. confluens, Oulodus velicuspis, O. robustus, and lower Aphelognathus grandis zones from Edenian to lowest Richmondian; Amorphognathus ordovicicus – Plegagnathus and Rhipidognathus symmetricus – Aphelognathus cf. A. divergens in the Akpatok and Foster Bay formations to the lower and upper Richmondian. The biostratigraphy is combined with geographical information systems (GIS) and Google Earth technologies in estimating the thickness of Paleozoic strata, which reduces the likelihood of “Boas River Formation” existing on Melville Peninsula to minimum. Article in Journal/Newspaper Foster Bay Foxe Basin Frobisher Bay Melville Peninsula Nunavut Canadian Science Publishing Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50 8 808 825 |
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Northeastern Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, preserves the stratigraphic record of the northwestern margin of the Foxe Basin. The Ordovician sequence on the peninsula includes the Lower Ordovician Ship Point Formation and Upper Ordovician Frobisher Bay, Amadjuak, Akpatok, and Foster Bay formations. Their biostratigraphic ages and correlations are poorly understood; in particular it is unclear whether the organic-rich “Boas River Formation” exists on the peninsula. Following extensive sampling of these stratigraphic units, studies of numerous conodont elements from both outcrops and rubble at about 60 localities have established five conodont assemblages through the five lithostratigraphic units on the peninsula. Oepikodus communis – Jumudontus gananda Assemblage in the Ship Point Formation is correlated to the Reutterodus andinus Zone in the uppermost Ibexian, Lower Ordovician. The other four assemblages from the Upper Ordovician are as follows: Appalachignathus delicatulus – Polyplacognathus ramosus – Belodina confluens in the Frobisher Bay Formation correlated to lower B. confluens Zone in the upper Chatfieldian; Belodina confluens – Periodon grandis in the Amadjuak Formation to the upper B. confluens, Oulodus velicuspis, O. robustus, and lower Aphelognathus grandis zones from Edenian to lowest Richmondian; Amorphognathus ordovicicus – Plegagnathus and Rhipidognathus symmetricus – Aphelognathus cf. A. divergens in the Akpatok and Foster Bay formations to the lower and upper Richmondian. The biostratigraphy is combined with geographical information systems (GIS) and Google Earth technologies in estimating the thickness of Paleozoic strata, which reduces the likelihood of “Boas River Formation” existing on Melville Peninsula to minimum. |
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Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and redefinition of the age of lithostratigraphic units on northeastern Melville Peninsula, Nunavut |
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Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and redefinition of the age of lithostratigraphic units on northeastern Melville Peninsula, Nunavut |
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Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and redefinition of the age of lithostratigraphic units on northeastern Melville Peninsula, Nunavut |
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Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and redefinition of the age of lithostratigraphic units on northeastern Melville Peninsula, Nunavut |
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Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and redefinition of the age of lithostratigraphic units on northeastern Melville Peninsula, Nunavut |
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