Nares Strait and the down-current termination of the Silurian turbidite basin of North Greenland

• Published in: Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience
• Main Author: Surlyk, Finn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland /Danish Polar Center 1982
• Subjects: Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Nares; Nares strait; North Greenland
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/139576

Combined palaeoenvironmental and palaeocurrent evidence demonstrates that a significant change took place in large-scale Silurian palaeogeographic configuration along the North Greenland - Canadian continental margin. The source area of the deep-water turbidite basin of North Greenland was the risin...