Melville Island's salt-based fold belt (Arctic Canada)
Melville Island lies astride the Cambrian through Devonian Arctic Platform, correlative rocks of the Franklinian Mobile Belt and, unconformable post-Devonian cover of the Sverdrup Basin. Seismic profiles and a revised geology map provide insight into Melville Island bedrock structure spanning a bill...
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ftriceuniv:oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/16447 2023-05-15T14:23:06+02:00 Melville Island's salt-based fold belt (Arctic Canada) Harrison, John Christopher Bally, Albert W. 1991 1166 p. application/pdf image/jp2 text/plain https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16447 eng eng Harrison, John Christopher. "Melville Island's salt-based fold belt (Arctic Canada)." (1991) Diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16447 . https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16447 Thesis Geol. 1991 Harrison Geology Geophysics Thesis maps Text 1991 ftriceuniv 2022-08-09T20:38:03Z Melville Island lies astride the Cambrian through Devonian Arctic Platform, correlative rocks of the Franklinian Mobile Belt and, unconformable post-Devonian cover of the Sverdrup Basin. Seismic profiles and a revised geology map provide insight into Melville Island bedrock structure spanning a billion years of earth history to depths exceeding 20 km. Structures at the deepest levels include possible ?Precambrian crystalline basement and three ?Proterozoic seismic successions deformed and eroded prior to unconformable overlap by ?Lower Cambrian strata. Over a south to north distance of 300 km, the ?Cambrian through Devonian shelf-marginal wedge increases from 1200 m to at least 12500 m in thickness. The overlying Devonian clastic wedge (3000 to 4600 m) represents the depositional record of the ancestral Ellesmerian Orogeny. deformation that eventually terminated lower Paleozoic sedimentation. This southerly-directed deformation produced large contractional features on the island, and a salt-based fold belt that dominates surface structure. The fold belt is continuous downwards with: a seismically-imaged, folded and thrust faulted interval with up to 28 km (15%) horizontal shortening; a basal detachment at 5 km, and; an array of southerly- and northerly-transported thrusts most of which fail to appear at surface. Elements of a younger Ellesmerian deformation phase, recognized in surface cross-fold axes, are also mapped within the folded sub-salt succession below 5 km. Ellesmerian deformation continues to the west where style is related to slip on a ?mid-Cambrian detachment. Thrusts that ramp up to the sub-salt decollement have produced large anticlinoria near the present margin of the Sverdrup Basin. These faults have been repeatedly reactivated since the ?Precambrian. Recognized phases include: a N40-10$\sp\circ$W-directed Late ?Proterozoic extension; mid-?Cambrian growth faulting; two phase sinistral transpressive inversion of these extensional structures during the Ellesmerian Orogeny; northerly-directed ... Thesis Arctic Arctic sverdrup basin Melville Island Rice University: Digital Scholarship Archive Arctic Canada |
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Melville Island lies astride the Cambrian through Devonian Arctic Platform, correlative rocks of the Franklinian Mobile Belt and, unconformable post-Devonian cover of the Sverdrup Basin. Seismic profiles and a revised geology map provide insight into Melville Island bedrock structure spanning a billion years of earth history to depths exceeding 20 km. Structures at the deepest levels include possible ?Precambrian crystalline basement and three ?Proterozoic seismic successions deformed and eroded prior to unconformable overlap by ?Lower Cambrian strata. Over a south to north distance of 300 km, the ?Cambrian through Devonian shelf-marginal wedge increases from 1200 m to at least 12500 m in thickness. The overlying Devonian clastic wedge (3000 to 4600 m) represents the depositional record of the ancestral Ellesmerian Orogeny. deformation that eventually terminated lower Paleozoic sedimentation. This southerly-directed deformation produced large contractional features on the island, and a salt-based fold belt that dominates surface structure. The fold belt is continuous downwards with: a seismically-imaged, folded and thrust faulted interval with up to 28 km (15%) horizontal shortening; a basal detachment at 5 km, and; an array of southerly- and northerly-transported thrusts most of which fail to appear at surface. Elements of a younger Ellesmerian deformation phase, recognized in surface cross-fold axes, are also mapped within the folded sub-salt succession below 5 km. Ellesmerian deformation continues to the west where style is related to slip on a ?mid-Cambrian detachment. Thrusts that ramp up to the sub-salt decollement have produced large anticlinoria near the present margin of the Sverdrup Basin. These faults have been repeatedly reactivated since the ?Precambrian. Recognized phases include: a N40-10$\sp\circ$W-directed Late ?Proterozoic extension; mid-?Cambrian growth faulting; two phase sinistral transpressive inversion of these extensional structures during the Ellesmerian Orogeny; northerly-directed ... |
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