THE CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF ELLESMERE ISLAND FROM RECEIVER FUNCTION MODELLING

• Main Authors: Schiffer, Christian, Stephenson, Randell Alexander, Oakey, Gordon
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Receiver Functions; Arctic Canada; Crustal Structure; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Eureka; Victoria; Baffin; North Atlantic; sverdrup basin; Victoria and Albert Mountains
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/the-crustal-structure-of-ellesmere-island-from-receiver-function-modelling(9dcac697-a468-452e-a5a5-88d4b4e59b61).html; https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014AM/webprogram/Paper246172.html

The geological and topographic expression of Ellesmere Island and the surrounding area was mainly shaped in the last 500 Ma. During the Palaeozoic Ellesmerian orogeny several blocks assembled and accreted to the Franklinian margin of Laurentia as an equivalent to the Caledonian orogeny the North Atl...