The Somerset Island Formation: an upper Silurian to ?Lower Devonian intertidal/supratidal succession, Boothia Uplift region, Arctic Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Miall, A. D., Kerr, J. Wm., Gibling, M. R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1978
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Canada; Prince of Wales Island; Cornwallis; Somerset Island; Peel Sound; Read Bay; Drake Bay; Cornwallis Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e78-019; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e78-019

The Somerset Island Formation of Somerset Island is a newly defined unit consisting of interbedded fine-grained, grey, planar-laminated dolomite and limestone, grey mottled limestone and dolomite, red quartzose siltstone and red dolosiltite. It forms a transitional unit between the limestone and dol...