Geology, simplified tectonic assemblage map of the Canadian Arctic Islands, Northwest Territories–Nunavut / [authors, J.C. Harrison … [et al.]].: M183-1/80-2015E-PDF

"This map and geodatabase illustrate the geology of the Canadian Arctic Islands including all lands north and west of Baffin Island. Major features include high-grade Archean and Paleoproterozoic metasedimentary and granitoid rocks of Ellesmere and lands to south and southwest. To the north and west is Cambrian to Devonian cover that grades to deformed rocks of the Ellesmerian Orogen on Ellesmere Island and in the central and western Arctic Islands. The Ellesmerian Orogen features Devonian molasse detached on Ordovician evaporites, outer shelf carbonates of Ellesmere Island detached in the Neoproterozoic, deep water strata including volcanics and turbidites, and Pearya terrane, accreted to ancestral North America in the Silurian. Unconformable on all this are Carboniferous to Paleogene strata of Sverdrup Basin which features a second deformation belt of Paleogene age, the Eurekan Orogen. Youngest rocks are Neogene and widely represented in the western Arctic Islands from Meighen to Banks islands"--Abstract.

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Department/Agency Canada. Natural Resources Canada.
Geological Survey of Canada.
Title Geology, simplified tectonic assemblage map of the Canadian Arctic Islands, Northwest Territories–Nunavut / [authors, J.C. Harrison … [et al.]].
Series title Canadian geoscience map ; 80
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) This record only includes the map and the “Map information document” in PDF, the complete data set with all the files in various formats is available for free download at http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/
Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information [Ottawa] : Natural Resources Canada, c2016.
Author / Contributor Harrison, John Christopher.
Description 1 map : col. + 1 map information document ([18] p.).
ISBN 978-0-660-03889-6
Catalogue number
  • M183-1/80-2015E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number 297416
Edition Preliminary version
Cartographic data Scale 1:200 000 ; Lambert conformal conic, standard parallels 78°N and 73°N, central meridian 100°
Subject terms Geological maps
Geomorphology
Structural geology
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