Stratigraphy, sedimentology and resource assessment of the Lower Cretaceous Isachsen Formation: Sverdrup Basin, Ellef Ringnes Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

• Main Author: Tullius, Dylan Neill
• Other Authors: Pedersen, Per Kent, Leier, Andrew
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2014
• Subjects: Geology; Mineralogy; Palynology; Isachsen; Sverdrup; Cretaceous; Arctic; Nunavut; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Canada; Ellef Ringnes Island; Arctic Archipelago; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11023/1690; https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27890

The Isachsen Formation is a Barremian to Aptian-aged fluvio-deltaic succession ranging in thickness from tens of meters to over 1400 m within the Sverdrup Basin of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The formation exhibits a variety of lithologies including coarse-grained quartz-arenite sandstones, fin...