scholarly journals Geological and geochemical data from the Canadian Arctic Islands. Part XV: basal strata of Devonian clastic wedge on Banks Island and correlation with mainland Northwest Territories

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Kabanov
2013 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Cynthia Marjorie Smith ◽  
Norman Andrew Lawrence ◽  
Rosemary Anne Buck

Two Short-eared Owl, Asio flammeus, nests were discovered in the summer of 2000 along the Thomsen River in Aulavik National Park of Canada on Banks Island, Northwest Territories. One other sighting of a Short-eared Owl suggests the possibility of a third breeding pair. These nests are the first confirmed breeding evidence from islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.


1991 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Blake ◽  
Bruce D. McLean ◽  
Anne Gunn

2006 ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Sarah Marsh ◽  
Suzanne de la Barre

Polar Record ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 14 (90) ◽  
pp. 305-314
Author(s):  
T. Ringereide

The total area of Canada (land area and fresh water) is around 10 million sq km, making it the second largest country in the world, second only to the Soviet Union.For various historic and economic reasons Canada's population of 20 million is very largely concentrated in the southern part of the country, with about twothirds of the population living in large urban centres. The heavy broken line on Fig 1 shows the northern boundary of the densely populated portion of Canada. Only 1·5 per cent of Canada's total population, or 300000 people, live north of this frontier, and out of this total only about 38000 live in the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories. The Yukon has a population of only twenty seven people per 1000 sq km, and the Northwest Territories of eight people per 1000 sq km. The total Eskimo population in both territories is about 13600 and the total Indian population some 8000.


2019 ◽  
Vol 156 (12) ◽  
pp. 2067-2084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A Pointon ◽  
Michael J Flowerdew ◽  
Peter Hülse ◽  
Simon Schneider ◽  
Martin J Whitehouse

AbstractThe Upper Cretaceous Kanguk Formation of the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Islands, contains numerous diagenetically altered volcanic ash layers (bentonites). Eleven bentonites were sampled from an outcrop section on Ellesmere Island for U–Pb zircon secondary ion mass spectrometry dating and whole-rock geochemical analysis. Two distinct types of bentonite are identified from the geochemical data. Relatively thick (0.1 to 5 m) peralkaline rhyolitic to trachytic bentonites erupted in an intraplate tectonic setting. These occur throughout the upper Turonian to lower Campanian (c. 92–83 Ma) outcrop section and are likely associated with the alkaline phase of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province. Two thinner (<5 cm) subalkaline dacitic to rhyolitic bentonites of late Turonian to early Coniacian age (c. 90–88 Ma) are also identified. The geochemistry of these bentonites is consistent with derivation from volcanoes within an active continental margin tectonic setting. The lack of nearby potential sources of subalkaline magmatism, together with the thinner bed thickness of the subalkaline bentonites and the small size of zircon phenocrysts therein (typically 50–80 μm in length) are consistent with a more distal source area. The zircon U–Pb age and whole-rock geochemistry of these two subalkaline bentonites correlate with an interval of intense volcanism in the Okhotsk–Chukotka Volcanic Belt, Russia. It is proposed that during late Turonian to early Coniacian times intense volcanism within the Okhotsk–Chukotka Volcanic Belt resulted in widespread volcanic ash dispersal across Arctic Alaska and Canada, reaching as far east as the Sverdrup Basin, more than 3000 km away.


1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. M. Das

Hexatylus mulveyi n. sp. and Deladenus durus (Cobb, 1922) Thorne, 1941, collected from soil in the Lake Hazen area of Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, are figured and described. H. mulveyi differs from H. viviparus Goodey, 1926 in the shape of the tail, the number of incisures, the single line of oocytes in the ovary, and in the vulva having elevated lips.


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