The Leopold Formation: An Upper Silurian Intertidal/Supratidal Carbonate Succession on Northeastern Somerset Island, Arctic Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Jones, Brian, Dixon, Owen A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1975
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Canada; Read Bay; Somerset Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e75-036; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e75-036

The name Leopold Formation is proposed for a thick and distinctive Upper Silurian stratigraphic succession, approximately 1000 ft (305 m) thick, on northeastern Somerset Island. This new formation consists largely of dolomitic rocks which formed in tidal flat environments analogous to those around t...