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Paleocene alkaline volcanism in the Nares Strait region: evidence from volcanic pebbles

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Paleogene sediments in fault-bounded basins on Judge Daly Promontory, northeast Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic, are rich in volcanogenic material. Volcanic pebbles within the Cape Back basin near Nares Strait were studied for their petrography, geochemistry, Sr and Nd isotopes, and geochronology to identify and characterize their parent rock. The pebbles are derived from lava flows and ignimbrites of a continental rift-related, strongly differentiated, highly incompatible element enriched, alkaline volcanic suite, the proposed Nares Strait volcanic suite, which is distinct from other alkaline volcanic suites on the northern coasts of Ellesmere Island and Greenland. 40Ar/39Ar amphibole and alkali feldspar ages indicate that volcanism was active around 61–58 Ma and was probably contemporaneous with sedimentation resulting in Middle to Late Paleocene age for deposition within the Cape Back basin and the other Paleogene basins on Judge Daly Promontory.

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The joint Canadian–German geoscientific field work on Ellesmere Island was financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as a project of the Canadian–German cooperation in science and technology. We are grateful to Ulrich Mayr, Carmen Lee, Kerstin Saalmann, and the other members of the 1999 and 2000 Carl Ritter Bay field groups for support during the field work. Klaus-Peter Burgath critically evaluated the selected samples and organized their preparation for age dating. We also thank M. Bockrath, H. Franke, D. Henry, F. Korte, Je. Lodziak, Ju. Lodziak, P. Macaj, T. Malarski, P. Rendschmidt, S. Sturm, H.-D. Weck, and A. Weitze for laboratory and technical assistance. Discussion of the 40Ar/39Ar dating results with Yakov Kapusta (Actlabs, Canada) is acknowledged. We are grateful to Eva Zaleski for a critical review of a former version of the manuscript, as well as to Christian Tegener, Mark Krienitz and to two anonymous reviewers for their critical comments, which greatly helped to improve this manuscript.

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Estrada, S., Henjes-Kunst, F., Melcher, F. et al. Paleocene alkaline volcanism in the Nares Strait region: evidence from volcanic pebbles. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 99, 863–890 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-009-0432-6

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