Palynological evidence for recycling of Upper Devonian into Lower Cretaceous of the Moose River Basin, James Bay Lowland, Ontario

1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyne A. Legault ◽  
Geoffrey Norris
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Drill Hole ◽  
Upper Devonian ◽  
James Bay ◽  
Conductivity Anomaly ◽  
Multiple Recycling ◽  
Moose River

Cored drill hole on a high electromagnetic conductivity anomaly near the Onakawana lignite field penetrated 50.3 m of Pleistocene, Cretaceous, and Devonian strata. Spore–pollen floras from the Cretaceous interval indicate an early middle Albian age and a correlation with the lower part of the Mattagami Formation. Spores, acritarchs, and tasmanitids from the Devonian interval indicate that the upper part of the Long Rapids Formation is marine and is Frasnian–Famennian in age. Multiple recycling events are documented between the Devonian and Cretaceous and between the Cretaceous and Pleistocene, provenances being local near the margins of the basin.

Palynofloral evidence for terrestrial Middle Jurassic in the Moose River Basin, Ontario

1977 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Norris
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Drill Hole ◽  
Moose River

Miospore assemblages from a drill hole in the western Moose River Basin comprise 26 species, coniferalean pollen being numerically dominant. Some species are common to putative Middle Jurassic horizons in the western Canadian plains, and comparisons can also be made with the British and French Middle Jurassic. A large hiatus exists between the terrestrial Middle Jurassic sediments and overlying terrestrial Albian (Lower Cretaceous) strata comprising the Mattagami Formation, and may parallel a similar hiatus in southeast Saskatchewan.

A Late Pleistocene plant-bearing deposit in Currie Township, near Matheson, Ontario

1979 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 1130-1136 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. Brereton ◽  
J. A. Elson
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Glacial Lake ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
Fossil Plant ◽  
James Bay ◽  
Plant Detritus ◽  
Lake Ojibway ◽  
Moose River ◽  
James Bay Lowlands

Two overburden test holes drilled to bedrock in Currie Township, southwest of Matheson, Ontario, penetrated stratified beds containing fossil plant detritus resting on an oxidized substrate, which are between two till sheets underlying glacial Lake Ojibway-Barlow varved clays. The fossil plants, chiefly mosses, represent an environment that is common in the region today, and are radiocarbon dated (GSC-2148) as older than 37000 years. The interglacial deposit is tentatively correlated with the Missinaibi Formation in the Moose River basin of the James Bay lowlands, probably of Sangamon age.

Organochlorine Contaminants in Headwater Peatlands, and Selected Estuary Sites of the Moose River

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. McCrea ◽  
Greg M. Wickware
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Deposition ◽  
Organochlorine Pesticides ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Typha Latifolia ◽  
Coastal Marshes ◽  
Surficial Sediments ◽  
Organochlorine Contaminants ◽  
Hexachlorocyclohexane Isomers ◽  
Moose River

Abstract Peatland waters of the Moose River basin, as well as surficial sediments and vascular plants of the estuary were sampled in 1982. Elevated levels of PCBs were found at all five peatland sites; concentrations ranged from 28 to 65 ng/L. Of the seventeen organochlorine pesticides investigated, the hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (a-and y-BHC) were the most prominent with total BHC concentrations ranging from 1.5 to 13.7 ng/L. The presence of these contaminants in ombrotrophic bogs indicated that there was atmospheric deposition of organochlorine contaminants in the basin. Analyses of surficial sediments, collected from tidal flats and coastal marshes, showed that PCBs and organochlorine pesticides were not present. Samples of Triglochin maritima L. seed heads and Typha latifolia L. roots were also free of PCBs.

scholarly journals Silurian conodont biostratigraphy and carbon (δ13Ccarb) isotope stratigraphy of the Victor Mine (V-03-270-AH) core in the Moose River Basin

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 1169-1181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa M. Bancroft ◽  
Frank R. Brunton ◽  
Mark A. Kleffner
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Conodont Biostratigraphy ◽  
Marine Strata ◽  
Carbonate Carbon ◽  
Isotope Stratigraphy ◽  
Moose River

The Moose River Basin in Ontario, Canada, contains nearly 1 km of Silurian marine strata, and although it has been studied for more than a century, its precise correlation globally has not been constrained. Herein, a core from the Victor Mine in the Moose River Basin was examined for conodont biostratigraphy and carbonate carbon (δ13Ccarb) isotope chemostratigraphy to provide a detailed chronostratigraphic framework for the Silurian strata (Severn River, Ekwan River, and Attawapiskat formations) in the Moose River Basin. The recovery of Aspelundia expansa, Aspelundia fluegeli fluegeli, Distomodus staurognathoides, Ozarkodina polinclinata estonica, Pterospathodus eopennatus, and Aulacognathus bullatus, as well as the lower Aeronian, upper Aeronian, lower Telychian (Valgu), and ascending limb of the Sheinwoodian (Ireviken) positive carbonate carbon (δ13Ccarb) isotope excursions provide significantly improved chronostratigraphic correlation of Llandovery strata in the Moose River Basin.

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