Late Tertiary and Early Pleistocene Deposits and History of Banks Island, Southwestern Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Vincent, Jean-Serge
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1990
• Subjects: arctic Canada; Banks Island; late Tertiary; Early Pleistocene; glaciation; interglaciation; Beaufort Formation; Worth Point Formation; Duck Hawk Bluffs Formation; Morgan Bluffs Formation; Quaternary geology; Arctique canadien; Ile de Banks; Tertiaire supérieur; Pléistocène inférieur; Formation de Beaufort; Formation de Worth Point; Formation de Duck Hawk Bluffs; Formation de Morgan Bluffs; géologie du Quaternaire; Arctic; Canada; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Duck Hawk Bluffs; Morgan Bluffs; Worth Point; Arctic Archipelago; Arctique*; Beaufort Sea; Ice; permafrost; Tundra
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64684

Fossil-rich sediments on Banks Island provide an excellent record of events and conditions that prevailed in arctic Canada during the late Tertiary and Early Pleistocene. In the late Tertiary, fluvial sands and gravels of the Beaufort Formation and related deposits were laid down on the coastal plai...