Synrift sedimentation in the Upper Carboniferous Canyon Fiord Formation, SW Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic.
The Upper Carboniferous Canyon Fiord Formation is genetically related to continental rifting during the early history of Sverdrup Basin. The basal part of the formation, on southwestern Ellesmere Island, has been subdivided into five distinct facies assemblages: (i) a lower sandstone assemblage, dep...
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University of Ottawa (Canada)
1991
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7631 https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-6883 |