Tertiary Coal Resources, Eastern Arctic Archipelago

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Bustin, R.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1980
• Subjects: Coal; Cretaceous period; Outliers; Petrology; Stratigraphy; Tertiary period; Axel Heiberg Island; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Fosheim Peninsula; Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Eureka; Eureka Sound; Heiberg; Arctic Archipelago
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65598

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...