Correlating Middle Cretaceous Palynological Records from the Canadian High Arctic Based on a Section from the Sverdrup Basin and Samples from the Eclipse Trough

• Published in: Palynology
• Main Authors: Jennifer M. Galloway, Arthur R. Sweet, Adam Pugh, Claudia J. Schröder-Adams, Graeme T. Swindles, James W. Haggart, Ashton F. Embry
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: AASP: The Palynological Society 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Hassel; Ellef Ringnes Island; Hoodoo Dome; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2012.670411

Quantitative palynological analyses undertaken on the middle Cretaceous Hassel Formation of the Sverdrup Basin and reputedly equivalent rocks from the Eclipse Trough, about 850 km east, provide convincing evidence that they are coeval and of Late Albian—Cenomanian age. We base this conclusion on sta...