Cretaceous basalts of the High Arctic large igneous province at Axel Heiberg Island (Canada): Volcanic stratigraphy, geodynamic setting, and origin

• Published in: Geological Journal
• Main Authors: Dostal, Jaroslav, MacRae, Andrew
• Other Authors: Somerville, I., Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Nunavut; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Canada; Heiberg; Axel Heiberg Island; Strand Fiord; Arctic Archipelago; canada basin; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gj.3132; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fgj.3132; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/gj.3132

The Cretaceous (Cenomanian, ~96 Ma) basaltic rocks of the Strand Fiord Formation of the Sverdrup Basin of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Nunavut, Canada, are a part of the High Arctic large igneous province. The basaltic suite reaches a thickness of almost 1,000 m on Axel Heiberg Island in its dep...