Eurekan faults on northern Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada: from Cenozoic strike-slip tectonics to recent seismicity ...

• Main Authors: Brandes, Christian, Piepjohn, Karsten
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science 2021
• Subjects: Ellesmere Island; Eurekan deformation; paleostress analsysis; Pearya Terrane; strike-slip tectonics; Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften550 | Geowissenschaften; Arctic; Canada; Dewey; Greenland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15488/15203; https://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/15322

The Eurekan deformation is a partially contractional Cenozoic tectonic event that affected large parts of the Arctic region. In the study area on northern Ellesmere Island, major NE-SW trending strike-slip faults occur, which are related to the Eurekan deformation. The outcrop data show that left-la...