Reconnaissance of Tertiary structures along Nares Strait, Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Published in: Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience
• Main Authors: Mayr, Ulrich, de Vries, Christiaan D. S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland /Danish Polar Center 1982
• Subjects: Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Nares; Daly; Judge Daly Promontory; Darling Peninsula; Cape Baird; Copes Bay; Arctic Archipelago; Nares strait
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/141033

In the coastal area of Ellesmere Island between Copes Bay in the south and Cape Baird in the north, at least three phases of Tertiary structural deformation can be distinguished. These are: 1) Paleocene uplifting, 2) Eocene thrusting and 3) strike-slip faulting, probably not younger than Miocene. Up...