Structure and Deformation at Borup Fiord Pass, NW Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada and Insights to the Eurekan Orogeny

• Main Author: Hill, Maureen
• Other Authors: Guest, Bernard
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2014
• Subjects: Geology; Structure; Tectonics; Eurekan; Arctic; Svalbard; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Greenland; Leith; Borup Fiord; Mount Leith; glacier; glacier*; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11023/1269; https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27904

Structural mapping was completed on northwest Ellesmere Island to improve the understanding of the regional structures, as well as provide insight into the Eurekan Orogen as a whole. The Eurekan Orogen is a Paleogene-aged deformation event caused by the collision of Greenland with the Canadian Arcti...