AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND IN EOCENE

[EUREKA SOUND GROUP ][FOSSIL CONES ]


The Buchanan Lake formation is the youngest and stratigraphically highest unit of the Eureka Sound group. It consists mainly of a syntectonic diabase pebble conglomerate and lithic sandstones shed from adjacent thrust sheets. The plant macrofossils, like the ones in the picture above are found in a unit of fine grained channels and floodplain sediments lying conformably on thick conglomerates.


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