Late Permian sedimentation in the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic: The Lindström and Black Stripe Formations

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-191

  Beauchamp, Benoit ^a   Henderson, Charles M ^b   Grasby, Stephen E ^c   Gates, Laura T ^d   Beatty, Tyler W ^b   Utting, John ^c   James, Noel P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CANADA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BLACK SHALES; BLACK STRIPE; CANADIAN ARCTIC; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC SHIFT; LATE PERMIAN; LOWER TRIASSIC; PERMIAN; ROCK-EVAL; SILICEOUS SHALES; SILTSTONES; SOURCE POTENTIALS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; TRIASSIC; UPPER PERMIAN;

ISOTOPES; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBON BLACK;

ABUNDANCE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; PERMIAN; PYRITE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICEOUS DEPOSIT; SILTSTONE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; TRIASSIC; UNCONFORMITY;

CANADA; CHINA; NUNAVUT; SVERDRUP BASIN;

HINDEODUS PARVUS;

EID: 73149105467     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscpgbull.57.2.167     Document Type: Article

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