Upper Ordovician to Silurian facies patterns in eastern Ellesmere Island and western North Greenland and their bearing on the Nares Strait lineament

• Published in: Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience
• Main Authors: Hurst, John M., Kerr, J. William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland /Danish Polar Center 1982
• Subjects: Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Nares; Daly; Washington Land; Hall Land; Judge Daly Promontory; Cañon Fiord; Nyeboe Land; Nares strait; North Greenland; Nyeboe land; Washington land
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/139575

The upper Ordovician and lower Silurian sediments in the northern Nares Strait region formed during a series of platform margin collapses and platform subsidences. Facies changes from platform carbonates to slope and trough elastics are intricate, but two almost vertical facies fronts can be correla...