Canadian-Alaskan Arctic
The Canadian and Alaskan Arctic is a significant hydrocarbon province, and as such comparatively well studied. Beyond its immediate, local significance, the rather well exposed onshore rock record of the area informs regional geology in two major aspects. Firstly, the sedimentary successions deposited in the Sverdrup Basin and beyond are valuable analogues for contemporary strata in adjacent, less well-explored and accessible parts of the Arctic. Secondly, characterising the evolution of the Arctic Canadian and Alaskan margin is key to the understanding of the opening of the Arctic Ocean and the palaeogeography of the Arctic region as a whole.
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Most Recent Reports
- Source rock characteristics of Cretaceous mudstone in the Anderson Basin
- An expanded combined U-Pb age and Hf isotope dataset from bentonites of the Kanguk Formation, Sverdrup Basin
- U-Pb age and geochemistry of bentonites from Late Cretaceous strata of the Anderson Basin
- The Late Cretaceous Smoking Hills Formation source rock in the Anderson Basin: biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment
- Understanding the distribution of Carboniferous-Triassic detrital zircons in Arctic Mesozoic strata