Pearya: a composite terrane with Caledonian affinities in northern Ellesmere Island

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Trettin, H. P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1987
• Subjects: Arctic; Ellesmere Island; M'Clintock
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e87-025; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e87-025

In Ellesmere Island, the Canadian Shield and Arctic Platform are flanked on the northwest by the lower Paleozoic Franklinian mobile belt, which comprises an unstable shelf (miogeocline) and a deep-water basin, divisible into an inner sedimentary belt and an outer sedimentary–volcanic belt. Both are...