Combined crustal-geological cross-section of Ellesmere Island

• Main Authors: Stephenson, Randell Alexander, Schiffer, Christian, Oakey, Gordon
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Crustal Strucutre; Arctic Canada; Geology; Geophysics; Arctic; Bache Peninsula; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Hansen Point
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/combined-crustalgeological-crosssection-of-ellesmere-island(d30890a1-90ae-454f-acd3-e70ded0f9c32).html; https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014AM/webprogram/Paper246028.html

Ellesmere Island, in Canada’s Arctic, consists of a series of ~SW-NE trending tectonic provinces, the crustal structure and geological expression of which represent a combination of interplate, accretionary orogenesis in the Palaeozoic and, most recently, intraplate deformation in the Cenozoic (Eure...