Ordovician to Devonian sea-level changes in western and northern Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Lenz, A. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1982
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Yukon; Canada; British Columbia; Mackenzie Valley; Cornwallis; Central Arctic; Mackenzie mountains
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e82-170; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e82-170

Lower Paleozoic sediments of central, Cordilleran, and arctic Canada are dominated by two megafacies: supratidal to shallow subtidal carbonates and minor evaporites of the platformal (cratonic) areas, and deeper water dark shales and dark limestones of the slope and basinal areas. Large areas of the...