Upper Cretaceous Marine Strata on Somerset Island, N.W.T.

Upper Cretaceous marine shale and limestone beds are present in a faulted outlier in the vicinity of Creswell Bay, Somerset Island. The contained microflora indicates a Senonian age and the strata are correlated to the Kanguk Formation of the Arctic islands.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Main Authors: Dixon, James, Hopkins Jr., William S., Dixon, Owen A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1973
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Arctic
Somerset Island
Creswell Bay
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e73-118
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e73-118
Description
Summary:Upper Cretaceous marine shale and limestone beds are present in a faulted outlier in the vicinity of Creswell Bay, Somerset Island. The contained microflora indicates a Senonian age and the strata are correlated to the Kanguk Formation of the Arctic islands.

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