Innuitian orogeny - Misplaced Pages

Major tectonic episode in the Canadian Arctic and Northernmost Greenland

The Innuitian orogeny, sometimes called the Ellesmere orogeny, was a major tectonic orogeny (mountain building episode) of the late Devonian to early Carboniferous, responsible for the formation of a series of mountain ranges in the Canadian Arctic and Northernmost Greenland. The episode started with the earliest Paleozoic rifting, extending from Ellesmere Island to Melville Island. However, the cause of the orogen remains poorly understood.

References

H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. 1991, p. 46
The Atlas of Canada - Geological Provinces Archived 2007-11-28 at the Wayback Machine
Rippington, S.; Scott, R. A.; Smyth, H.; Bogolepova, O.; Gubanov, A. (2010). "The Ellesmerian Orogeny: fact or fiction?" (PDF). GeoCanada: 10–14. Retrieved 14 July 2022.

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Geological Regions: Innuitian orogen Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine

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