Cambrian-Ordovician platform stratigraphy: correlations around Kane Basin
Cambrian and Ordovician platform strata in western North Greenland and adjacent Ellesmere Island were deposited on an elongate platform lying to the south of the Franklinian Trough. The sequence is dominated by carbonates with prominent evaporite horizons and subsidiary shales and sandstones. A tran...
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ftsbaarhusojs:oai:ojs.tidsskrift.dk:article/139572 2024-01-28T10:04:37+01:00 Cambrian-Ordovician platform stratigraphy: correlations around Kane Basin Peel, John S. L. Christie, Robert 1982-06-10 application/pdf https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/139572 eng eng The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland /Danish Polar Center https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/139572/183589 https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/139572 Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience; Vol. 8 (1982): Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience; 117-135 Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience; Årg. 8 (1982): Meddelelser om Grønland, Geoscience; 117-135 1600-4590 0106-1046 10.7146/moggeosci.v8i info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1982 ftsbaarhusojs https://doi.org/10.7146/moggeosci.v8i 2024-01-03T23:59:20Z Cambrian and Ordovician platform strata in western North Greenland and adjacent Ellesmere Island were deposited on an elongate platform lying to the south of the Franklinian Trough. The sequence is dominated by carbonates with prominent evaporite horizons and subsidiary shales and sandstones. A transect across the platform shows changes in facies and increase in thickness from inner platform sequences in Inglefield Land and Bache Peninsula, to the south, to outer platform sequences in the Judge Daly Promontory area; clastic trough deposition characterises sections in northern Ellesmere Island. This paper briefly describes and correlates these sequences occurring around Kane Basin. The regional framework and close similarity of Cambrian and Ordovician sequences in Greenland and Canada indicate that substantial transcurrent net displacement has not taken place along Nares Strait. Of special note are narrow belts of Ordovician evaporites which cross Nares Strait from Ellesmere Island into Greenland without displacement at the present day. The continuity of these environmentally specialised belts of deposition demonstrates that net transcurrent displacement along Nares Strait since the Early Ordovician has not exceeded 50 km. Article in Journal/Newspaper Bache Peninsula Ellesmere Island Greenland Inglefield land Kane Basin Nares strait North Greenland Aarhus University: OJS at The State and University Library Ellesmere Island Canada Greenland Nares ENVELOPE(158.167,158.167,-81.450,-81.450) Kane ENVELOPE(-63.038,-63.038,-73.952,-73.952) Daly ENVELOPE(63.761,63.761,-67.513,-67.513) Bache Peninsula ENVELOPE(-75.589,-75.589,79.173,79.173) Inglefield Land ENVELOPE(-69.987,-69.987,78.637,78.637) Judge Daly Promontory ENVELOPE(-66.993,-66.993,81.252,81.252) Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience 8 |
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Cambrian and Ordovician platform strata in western North Greenland and adjacent Ellesmere Island were deposited on an elongate platform lying to the south of the Franklinian Trough. The sequence is dominated by carbonates with prominent evaporite horizons and subsidiary shales and sandstones. A transect across the platform shows changes in facies and increase in thickness from inner platform sequences in Inglefield Land and Bache Peninsula, to the south, to outer platform sequences in the Judge Daly Promontory area; clastic trough deposition characterises sections in northern Ellesmere Island. This paper briefly describes and correlates these sequences occurring around Kane Basin. The regional framework and close similarity of Cambrian and Ordovician sequences in Greenland and Canada indicate that substantial transcurrent net displacement has not taken place along Nares Strait. Of special note are narrow belts of Ordovician evaporites which cross Nares Strait from Ellesmere Island into Greenland without displacement at the present day. The continuity of these environmentally specialised belts of deposition demonstrates that net transcurrent displacement along Nares Strait since the Early Ordovician has not exceeded 50 km. |
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Peel, John S. L. Christie, Robert Cambrian-Ordovician platform stratigraphy: correlations around Kane Basin |
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Cambrian-Ordovician platform stratigraphy: correlations around Kane Basin |
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Cambrian-Ordovician platform stratigraphy: correlations around Kane Basin |
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Cambrian-Ordovician platform stratigraphy: correlations around Kane Basin |
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Cambrian-Ordovician platform stratigraphy: correlations around Kane Basin |
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Cambrian-Ordovician platform stratigraphy: correlations around Kane Basin |
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cambrian-ordovician platform stratigraphy: correlations around kane basin |
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The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland /Danish Polar Center |
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1982 |
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ENVELOPE(158.167,158.167,-81.450,-81.450) ENVELOPE(-63.038,-63.038,-73.952,-73.952) ENVELOPE(63.761,63.761,-67.513,-67.513) ENVELOPE(-75.589,-75.589,79.173,79.173) ENVELOPE(-69.987,-69.987,78.637,78.637) ENVELOPE(-66.993,-66.993,81.252,81.252) |
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Ellesmere Island Canada Greenland Nares Kane Daly Bache Peninsula Inglefield Land Judge Daly Promontory |
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Ellesmere Island Canada Greenland Nares Kane Daly Bache Peninsula Inglefield Land Judge Daly Promontory |
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Bache Peninsula Ellesmere Island Greenland Inglefield land Kane Basin Nares strait North Greenland |
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Bache Peninsula Ellesmere Island Greenland Inglefield land Kane Basin Nares strait North Greenland |
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Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience; Vol. 8 (1982): Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience; 117-135 Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience; Årg. 8 (1982): Meddelelser om Grønland, Geoscience; 117-135 1600-4590 0106-1046 10.7146/moggeosci.v8i |
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