Summary of conodont biostratigraphy of the Blue Fiord and Bird Fiord formations (Lower-Middle Devonian) at the type and adjacent areas, southwestern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

ABSTRACTOn 19 March 1930 the German geologist, Hans K.E. Krüger, accompanied by a Dane, Åge Rose Bjare, and an Inughuk, Akqioq (the latter driving their dog sledge) set off westwards from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police post at Bache Peninsula, Ellesmere Island; two support sledges, driven by Inughuit, escorted them. It appears to have been Krüger's intention to study the geology of the coasts of the outer islands of the Canadian Arctic archipelago and to carry out soundings of the continental shelf and slope. The two support sledges turned back at Depot Point, Eureka Sound. Krüger, Bjare, and Akqioq were never seen again. This article reviews Krüger's background, his preparations for the expedition (which included two summers of field work in West Greenland and a wintering in northwest Greenland), and the extensive searches mounted by the RCMP in 1931 and 1932. Finally, it analyzes the evidence provided by three messages left by Krüger and subsequently recovered, with a view to making an educated guess as to the fate of the expedition.

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Whole-Rock Rb/Sr Ages of Metamorphic Rocks from Northern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. I. The Gneiss Terrain between Ayles Fiord and Yelverton Inlet

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e75-010 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 90-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

A. K. Sinha ◽

Thomas Frisch

Keyword(s):

Regional Metamorphism ◽

Canadian Arctic ◽

Ellesmere Island ◽

Metamorphic Rocks ◽

Canadian Arctic Archipelago ◽

Fold Belt ◽

Late Precambrian

The first Precambrian ages from the Northern Ellesmere Fold Belt are reported. Six rocks from the largest gneiss terrain in northern Ellesmere Island yield a Late Precambrian age (minimum 742 ± 12 m.y.) of regional metamorphism. Relatively high initial 87Sr/86Sr suggests that the rocks were derived from crustal materials.

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Origin of iron-oxide and silicate melt rocks in Paleogene sediments of southern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Nunavut

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e07-005 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 44 (7) ◽

pp. 1005-1013 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Karsten Piepjohn ◽

Solveig Estrada ◽

Lutz Reinhardt ◽

Werner von Gosen ◽

Harald Andruleit

Keyword(s):

Canadian Arctic ◽

Ellesmere Island ◽

Anthropogenic Activity ◽

Canadian Arctic Archipelago ◽

X Ray Diffraction ◽

Coal Seams ◽

Volcanic Origin ◽

X Ray ◽

Early Tertiary ◽

Unconsolidated Sand

Between Vendom Fiord and Makinson Inlet on southern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Nunavut, isolated and fault-bounded Early Tertiary basins are exposed. The basin deposits are Paleocene to Eocene in age and overlie unconformably folded Ordovician and Silurian carbonates of the Paleozoic Franklinian Basin that were affected by intense, pre-Paleocene weathering and karstification in places. The Tertiary sediments consist mainly of dark unconsolidated sand and silt and are interbedded with many centimetre- to metre-thick coal seams. In several places, round orange and red "spots" occur within the dark grey Tertiary basin fills and are clustered on top of the dark grey Tertiary occurrences. The "spots" are up to 100 m in diameter and consist of consolidated burnt shards of clay or clinker. In the centre of the reddish "spots," dark, massive, and partly high-magnetic lava- or slag-like rocks are poorly exposed as masses that are a decimetre or less in scale. These rocks were investigated using thin section studies, as well as X-ray diffraction and X-ray flourescence analyses. The melt rocks are composed of glass, cordierite-group minerals, hematite, magnetite, tridymite, mullite, and cristobalite. They represent paralavas resulting from subsurface combustion of the Tertiary coal seams under conditions similar to those in a blast furnace. An origin by anthropogenic activity or a volcanic origin can be ruled out.

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