Tertiary Marine Events of the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin and Correlation of Oligocene to Pliocene Marine Outcrops in Arctic North America

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: McNeil, David H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1990
• Subjects: benthic foraminifers; Tertiary; arctic North America; paleoceanography; Turrilina; Asterigerina; Cibicides; foraminifères benthiques; Tertiaire; Amérique du Nord arctique; paléocéanographie; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Island; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Meighen Island; Norwegian Sea; White Point; Arctique*; Baffin; Foraminifera*; Mackenzie Basin; North Atlantic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64680

The benthic foraminiferal succession from the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin of arctic Canada reflects many of the major oceanographic and climatic events of the Tertiary. The Paleocene-Eocene epochs are characterized by restricted marine circulation and pronounced foraminiferal endemism. Paleogeographic...