Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Early Diagenesis of Pennsylvanian-Permian Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Cyclothems, SW Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

• Main Author: Walker, Victoria M.
• Other Authors: Beauchamp, Benoit
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2013
• Subjects: Geology; Pennsylvanian; Permian; Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastics; Cyclothems; Early Diagenesis; Subaerial Exposure; Meteoric Diagenesis; Microfacies; Canadian Arctic; Raanes Peninsula; Canyon Fiord Formation; Belcher Channel Formation; Nansen Formation; Arctic; Belcher; Belcher Channel; Ellesmere Island; Nunavut; Foraminifera*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11023/930; https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27888

Nine stratigraphic sections of Lower Moscovian (Pennsylvanian) to Sakmarian (Lower Permian) mixed carbonate-siliciclastic strata, belonging to the Canyon Fiord, Belcher Channel and Nansen formations were examined on SW Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. This succession is represented by fifteen microfacies...