The Diatom Dark Ages: Identification of mid-Cretaceous Arctic Platform diatoms from the basal transgression of the Kanguk Formation, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada

• Main Author: Heins, Megan
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2022
• Subjects: micropaleontology; cretaceous; biostratigraphy; polar research; Earth Sciences; Geology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Paleontology; Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Devon Island
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geoscidiss/144; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/geoscidiss/article/1147/viewcontent/Heins_2022.pdf

The lower part of the mid-Cretaceous Kanguk Formation (Lower Turonian interval) contains an important paleontological record crucial to the characterization of a poorly known interval of fossil marine diatoms history. Kanguk Formation mudstones are exposed in a ~200 m-thick section on Devon Island,...