Tertiary Coal Resources, Eastern Arctic Archipelago
In the eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago major coal resources occur within the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary Eureka Sound Formation. The formation, which ranges in thickness from thin erosional outliers on central Axel Heiberg Island to a maximum thickness of 3300 m on Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65598 2023-05-15T14:19:17+02:00 Tertiary Coal Resources, Eastern Arctic Archipelago Bustin, R.M. 1980-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65598 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65598/49512 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65598 ARCTIC; Vol. 33 No. 1 (1980): March: 1–220; 38-49 1923-1245 0004-0843 Coal Cretaceous period Outliers Petrology Stratigraphy Tertiary period Axel Heiberg Island Nunavut Ellesmere Island Fosheim Peninsula info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1980 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:40Z In the eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago major coal resources occur within the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary Eureka Sound Formation. The formation, which ranges in thickness from thin erosional outliers on central Axel Heiberg Island to a maximum thickness of 3300 m on Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, contains numerous thick seams of coal. The coal is highly variable in quality, but seams of clean, vitrain rich coal several metres thick are present. The rank of the coal ranges from lignite through sub-bituminous to high-volatile bituminous as measured by vitrinite reflectance. Inferred resources within the area of study are calculated as 30,000 million tonnes of which 15,000 million tonnes are lignite, 11,000 million tonnes are sub-bituminous and 4000 million tonnes are high-volatile bituminous. The area encompassed only a small portion of the known outcrop area of Late Cretaceous and Tertiary coal measures in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago which indicates that considerable further resources are present. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Archipelago Arctic Axel Heiberg Island Canadian Arctic Archipelago Ellesmere Island Eureka Eureka Sound Fosheim Peninsula Nunavut University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Axel Heiberg Island ENVELOPE(-91.001,-91.001,79.752,79.752) Canadian Arctic Archipelago Ellesmere Island Eureka ENVELOPE(-85.940,-85.940,79.990,79.990) Eureka Sound ENVELOPE(-84.999,-84.999,79.002,79.002) Fosheim Peninsula ENVELOPE(-83.749,-83.749,79.669,79.669) Heiberg ENVELOPE(13.964,13.964,66.424,66.424) Nunavut ARCTIC 33 1 |
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In the eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago major coal resources occur within the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary Eureka Sound Formation. The formation, which ranges in thickness from thin erosional outliers on central Axel Heiberg Island to a maximum thickness of 3300 m on Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, contains numerous thick seams of coal. The coal is highly variable in quality, but seams of clean, vitrain rich coal several metres thick are present. The rank of the coal ranges from lignite through sub-bituminous to high-volatile bituminous as measured by vitrinite reflectance. Inferred resources within the area of study are calculated as 30,000 million tonnes of which 15,000 million tonnes are lignite, 11,000 million tonnes are sub-bituminous and 4000 million tonnes are high-volatile bituminous. The area encompassed only a small portion of the known outcrop area of Late Cretaceous and Tertiary coal measures in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago which indicates that considerable further resources are present. |
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Tertiary Coal Resources, Eastern Arctic Archipelago |
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Tertiary Coal Resources, Eastern Arctic Archipelago |
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Tertiary Coal Resources, Eastern Arctic Archipelago |
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ENVELOPE(-91.001,-91.001,79.752,79.752) ENVELOPE(-85.940,-85.940,79.990,79.990) ENVELOPE(-84.999,-84.999,79.002,79.002) ENVELOPE(-83.749,-83.749,79.669,79.669) ENVELOPE(13.964,13.964,66.424,66.424) |
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