Stratigraphy, mud buildups, and carbonate platform development of the Upper Ordovician to Lower Devonian sequence, Ellesmere, Hans, and Devon Islands, Arctic Canada.

• Main Author: de Freitas, Tim A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 1991
• Subjects: Geology; Allen Bay; Arctic; Baumann Fiord; Canada; Canyon River; Cape Phillips; Cape Storm; Darling Peninsula; Ellesmere Island; Goose Fiord; Greenland; Pinnacle; Red Canyon River; Trold Fiord; North Greenland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7937; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-15571

The Upper Ordovician to Lower Devonian platform in the Canadian Arctic twice evolved from a ramp to a rimmed shelf profile. Platform backstepping occurred in the fastigatus, acuminatus, cyphus?, sakmaricus (in North Greenland only) and linearis graptolite zones. Two major phases of pinnacle reef dev...