NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Phillips, Stephen M.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To continue the study of the detailed geological history of Caledonian Bay and the region near Schei Summit of central Ellesmere Island. Geological mapping will be carried out on an approx. scale of 1:50,000, using aereal photographs as a base. More detailed studies (on a meter scale) will be undertaken where structures and outcrop permit. Some rock samples will be collected for laboratory anal...

Principal Investigator: Mallamo, Mark
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To study the carbonate rocks of the Allen Bay Formation (Ordovician and Silurian in age) on Cornwallis and Griffith Islands by mapping and collecting different rock and fossil types. This will enable the interpretation of the physical setting or environment in which these rocks were deposited, some 450 million years ago....

Principal Investigator: England, John H
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To complete basic surveying and mapping techniques around Cape Lockwood, Greely Fiord and the eastern coast of adjoining Canan Fiord, to asess the extent and timing of past glaciations in this area and their associated sea level adjustments. To collect fossil shells and driftwood for radiocarbon dating....

Principal Investigator: Jung, Arthur
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To study the structural geometry and history of the Sverdrup Basin strata exposed within this area. To study the mechanism by which the vergence of the thrust fault changes along the strike of the Blue Mountain Thrust. To measure stratigraphic sections within this field area....

Principal Investigator: Butterfield, Nicholas J
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To conduct two to three detailed geological traverses through the late Proterozic sedimentary deposits of the Borden Basin (Society Cliffs, Victory Bay, Athole Point, Strathcona Sound and Elwin Formations) mapping and collecting samples for micropaleontological, geochemical and sedimentary analyses....

Principal Investigator: Dixon, O.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To study Lower Paleozoic stratigraphy, sedimentology and geological history in the Canadian Arctic Islands. The specific project planned to begin in 1987 concerns Silurian shelf-margin facies on NW Devon and Ellesmere Islands. The field work planned for 1987 would include measurement of stratigraphic sections and collection of rock and fossil samples for subsequent laboratory study....

Principal Investigator: Francis, Don
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Summary: To study the marginal rocks of the Muskox Layered Intrusion by mapping and collecting 100 fist-sized rock samples for chemical analysis along the eastern margin of the intrusion from Stanbridge Lake to the Coppermine River; determine the composition of the parental magma of the intrusion and to characterize the process of magma crystallization along the walls of the intrusion; undertake a reconnai...

Principal Investigator: Evans, David J.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: This is a continuation of work begun in 1985 and 1986: to map the surficial geology and geomorphology in the area of Phillips Inlet and the Wootton Peninsula, N.W. Ellesmere Island; as well as to collect samples of shells from stratigraphic sections and driftwood from raised beaches for C14 dating....

Principal Investigator: Rainbird, Robert H
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To carry out stratigraphic section measurement, geological mapping and sampling of rocks for laboratory analysis....

Principal Investigator: Mattner, Jorg
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Summary: To reconstruct the depositional environment in as much detail as possible, of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sediments nowadays outcropping in the central part of the Northern Richardson Mountains....