Beaufort Formation (Late Tertiary) as Seen from Prince Patrick Island, Arctic Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Fyles, John G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1990
• Subjects: Beaufort Formation; Prince Patrick Island; aCrcatnica da; late Tertiary; Pliocene; plant fossils; paleo-environment; fluvial sediments; stratigraphic nomenclature; Formation de Beaufort; île Prince Patrick; Arctique canadien; tertiaire tardif; Pliocène; plantes fossiles; paléo-environnement; sédiments fluviatiles; nomenclature stratigraphique; Arctic; Ballast Brook; Canada; Duck Hawk Bluffs; Meighen Island; Arctique*; Banks Island
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64686

The Beaufort Formation, in its type area on Prince Patrick Island, is a single lithostratigraphic unit, a few tens of metres thick, consisting of unlithified sandy deposits of braided rivers. Organic beds in the sand have yielded more than 200 species of plants and insects and probably originated du...