Blind Fiord Formation

Unit Name: Blind Fiord Formation
Unit Type: Lithostratigraphic
Rank: Formation
Status: Formal
Usage: Currently in use
Age Interval: Early Triassic (251 - 245 ma)
Province/Territory: Nunavut

Originator: Tozer, 1963c.

Type Locality:

Northwest of Blind Fiord, Raanes Peninsula, Ellesmere Island.

Distribution:

Outcrops in a northeast-trending belt from Axel Heiberg Island to northwestern Ellesmere Island; probably present throughout the basinal part of the Sverdrup Basin. At the type locality, about 1,120 m thick but the thickness varies from 330 m at Bunde Fiord to 1,210 m at Buchanan Lake.

Lithology:

Mainly grey to green, partly micaceous siltstone; interbedded with grey shale in some areas.

Relationship:

The unit is a basinal equivalent of the Bjorne Formation. Blind Fiord silt-stones are paraconformably underlain by Permian cherty limestones at the type locality and are overlain with a sharp contact by the Blaa Mountain Formation.

Remark:

First Published: Geological Survey of Canada. Map 21-1959.

Other Citations:

Tozer, 1963c, g; Souther, 1963; Fricker, 1963; Thorsteinsson and Tozer, 1970.

References:

Tozer, E.T., 1963c. Blind Fiord, pp. 380-385: in Fortier, Y.O. et al., Geology of the north-central part of the Arctic Archipelago (Operation Franklin), Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 320, 671 p.

Source: CSPG Lexicon of Canadian Stratigraphy, Volume 1, Arctic Archigelage (District of Franklin); R.L. Christie, A.F. Embry, G.A. Van Dyck (editor)
Contributor: A. Fischer
Entry Reviewed: Yes
Name Set: Lithostratigraphic Lexicon
LastChange: 31 Mar 2009