Anatomy of a large-scale braid-plain quartzarenite from the Neoproterozoic Shaler Group, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada

The Neoproterozoic Kuujjua Formation is an up to 120 m thick, texturally submature quartzarenite typified by laterally persistent tabular planar cosets of simple and compound planar crossbedding, intercalated with rare, thin dolomitic siltstone lenses up to tens of kilometres wide. It is interpreted...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Main Author: Rainbird, Robert H.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1992
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e92-201
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e92-201