A new Lower Devonian rock unit in the Canadian Arctic Islands

A thin, shelf-type carbonate unit with an abundant shelly fauna of Lower Devonian age is developed in the vicinity of Drake Bay, northwestern Prince of Wales Island where it rests on a dolomitic western facies of the dominantly clastic Peel Sound Formation. These limestones and shales which contrast...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Main Author: Ormiston, Allen R.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1969
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Arctic
Bathurst Island
Prince of Wales Island
Peel Sound
Drake Bay
Stuart Bay
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e69-112
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e69-112

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