Arctic Bay Formation, Borden Basin, Nunavut (Canada): Basin evolution, black shale, and dissolved metal systematics in the Mesoproterozoic ocean

• Published in: Precambrian Research
• Main Authors: Turner, Elizabeth, Kamber, Balz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Arctic Bay Formation; Basin; Black shale; Borden; Geochemistry; Geology; Mesoproterozoic; australia; baffin-island; chemistry; continental-crust; igneous events; quadrupole icp-ms; ratio; reproducibility; sediments; Arctic; Arctic Bay; Baffin Island; Canada; Nunavut; Arctic bay; Baffin; canada basin
• Online Access: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/126157/

The Arctic Bay Formation (Nunavut, Canada) represents a late Mesoproterozoic muddy terrigenous ramp and contains >200 m of black shale. The formation was studied in order to decipher the tectonostratigraphic and geochemical evolution of the basin, address the origin of metal enrichment, and deter...