THE LATE PALEOCENE TO EARLY EOCENE POLAR FORESTS OF CANADA: A PALEOBOTANICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS

• Main Author: West, Christopher Kirk 1983-
• Other Authors: Basinger, James F, Greenwood, David R, Butler, Sam, Aitken, Alec, Sproat, Colin, Eglington, Bruce
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2019
• Subjects: Paleobotany; Arctic; Paleocene; Eocene; Climate; Taxonomy; Diversity; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Heiberg; Strathcona; Strathcona Fiord
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/12305

The Canadian High Arctic during the late Paleocene–early Eocene was home to an ecosystem composed of temperate and tropical flora and fauna. The fossil-bearing deposits on Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg islands contain the best of record of these, now extinct, high latitude ecosystems. These fossil flor...