Tectonostratigraphy and Allochthonous Salt Tectonics of Axel Heiberg Island, Central Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada
Tectonostratigraphy and Allochthonous Salt Tectonics of Axel Heiberg Island, Central Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada
Abstract
Copublished with the Geological Survey of Canada (as Bulletin 607). The authors examine Axel Heiberg Island (northern Nunavut), which contains the thickest Mesozoic section in the Sverdrup Basin. The island, only 370 km long, is second only to Iran in its concentration of exposed diapirs: 46 diapirs of Carboniferous evaporites and associated minibasins. The Axel Heiberg canopy is one of only three known exposed evaporite canopies.
Citation
Harrison, J. C., and Jackson, M.P.A., 2014, Tectonostratigraphy and Allochthonous Salt Tectonics of Axel Heiberg Island, Central Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations No. 279, 241 p.
Code
RI279
ISBN
978-100-23499-1
ISSN
0068-7626
Number
279
Number of figures
76
Number of pages
241
Publisher
The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology
Series
Report of Investigation
Year
2014