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

• Main Author: KAMBER, BALZ SAMUEL
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Geology; Black shale; Geochemistry; Mesoproterozoic; Arctic Bay Formation; Borden Basin; Arctic; Arctic Bay; Canada; Nunavut; Arctic bay; canada basin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/63769; http://people.tcd.ie/kamberbs

PUBLISHED 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,...