Paleoecology and sedimentology of late Silurian biogenic structures in the Duoro and Devon Island Formations on western Devon and southwestern Ellesmere Islands, Arctic Canada.

• Main Author: Sweet, Natalie L.
• Other Authors: Dixon, O. A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 1995
• Subjects: Paleobotany; Archer; Arctic; Barlow; Barlow Inlet; Canada; Colin Archer Peninsula; Devon Island; Kent Island; North Kent Island; Seal Islands
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10385; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-8265

Carbonate buildups of late-Ludlow-Pridoli age occur within an extensive Silurian reef 'belt' in the Canadian Arctic Islands. Two phases of mound development were documented. The buildups include mudmounds in the uppermost Douro Formation on western Devon Island, and skeletal mounds in the...