Facies analysis of Lower Permian cyclic carbonates, west-central Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic.

• Main Author: Morin, Jean.
• Other Authors: Desrochers, A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 1992
• Subjects: Geology; Arctic; Belcher; Belcher Channel; Ellesmere Island; Mount Bayley; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7553; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-15398

At least 36 decametre-scale, largely symmetric high-frequency cycles spanning approximately 15 Ma make up the carbonate-dominated succession of Lower Permian sequence 3 of the Sverdrup Basin in Fosheim and Hamilton peninsulas. These cycles record a rift pulse caracterized by the uplift, passive subs...