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The Ellesmere Island Volcanics are a Late Cretaceous volcanic group of volcanoes and lava flows in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.

Ellesmere Island Volcanics are part of the Arctic Cordillera. This volcanic province is among the northernmost volcanism on Earth.

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Ellesmere Island Volcanics

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The Ellesmere Island Volcanics are a Late Cretaceous volcanic group of volcanoes and lava flows in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut...

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Ellesmere Island

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rocks) in the island's southeastern corner. In addition, there are syntectonic clastics which comprise the Ellesmere Island Volcanics of the Sverdrup...

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Large igneous province

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and Faroes) High Arctic Large Igneous Province (includes the Ellesmere Island Volcanics, Strand Fiord Formation, Alpha Ridge, Franz Josef Land, and Svalbard)...

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Sverdrup Basin Magmatic Province

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flood basalts, dikes and sills which form two volcanic formations called the Ellesmere Island Volcanics and Strand Fiord Formation. The flood basalt lava...

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Arctic Cordillera

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permafrost. Mountains of volcanic rock range in age from 1.2 billion to 65 million years old. The Late Cretaceous Ellesmere Island Volcanics has been uncertainly...

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Alpha Ridge

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The Alpha Ridge is a major volcanic ridge under the Arctic Ocean between the Canada Basin (off Ellesmere Island) and the Lomonosov Ridge. It was active...

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Qikiqtaaluk Region

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Geography portal Canada portal Akudnirmiut Inuit Netsilik Inuit Ellesmere Island Volcanics Strathcona Fiord Philip Goldring (Winter 2015). "Historians and...

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Axel Heiberg Island

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July 1988 Ellesmere Island Volcanics "Axel Heiberg Island". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Area of major sea islands, by region...

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Volcanic group

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A volcanic group is a stratigraphic group consisting of volcanic strata. They can be in the form of volcanic fields, volcanic complexes and cone clusters...

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Siletz River Volcanics

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Wyoming Willwood Formation of Wyoming Siletz River Volcanics at Fossilworks.org "Siletz River Volcanics and related rocks". USGS Mineral Resources On-Line...

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Volcanism of Canada

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Belcher Islands in eastern Hudson Bay contain two volcanic sequences known as the Flaherty and Eskimo volcanics. The Fox River Belt consists of volcanics, sills...

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Strand Fiord Formation

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List of volcanoes in Canada Ellesmere Island Volcanics Lexicon of Canadian Geological Units. Strand Fiord Formation Volcanic style in the Strand Fiord Formation...

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Volcanism of Northern Canada

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Arctic Large Igneous Province, it consists of two volcanic formations called the Ellesmere Island Volcanics and Strand Fiord Formation. In the Strand Fiord...

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Kaffeklubben Island

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Kaffeklubben Island or Coffee Club Island (Danish: Kaffeklubben Ø; Greenlandic: Inuit Qeqertaat) is an uninhabited island lying off the northern shore...

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List of islands by highest point

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autonomous region. This list contains 50 island highpoints of volcanic origin. Geography portal Islands portal Mountains portal List of elevation extremes by...

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Recursive islands and lakes

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needed] Islands portal Lakes portal List of endorheic basins Volcanic crater lake List of islands by area List of lakes by area List of islands by population...

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List of islands by area

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the Caribbean. The largest volcanic island in the world. The largest uninhabited island in the world. The largest island in Antarctica. Antarctic territorial...

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Kerguelen Islands

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of Kerguelen". The Trout's Tale – The Fish That Conquered an Empire. Ellesmere, Shropshire: Medlar Press. pp. 161–170. ISBN 978-1-907110-44-3. Sharma...

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Canadian Shield

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its Arctic Archipelago, Baffin Island and significant bands through Somerset, Southampton, Devon and Ellesmere islands. In total, the exposed area of...

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Geography of Canada

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settlement, Canadian Forces Station Alert, on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island—latitude 82.5°N—which lies 817 kilometres (508 mi) from the North Pole...

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North Atlantic Igneous Province

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Alpha Ridge (Arctic Ocean) c. 130–120 Ma, migrated down Ellesmere Island, through Baffin Island, onto the west coast of Greenland, and finally arrived...

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Margaret Formation

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Canada. The unit belonging to the Eureka Sound Group which crops out at Ellesmere Island preserves fossils dating back to the Early Eocene period, or Wasatchian...

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Canadian Arctic Rift System

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past Ellesmere Island along the Nares Strait. Approximately 170 km (110 mi) of Paleocene separation occurred between Greenland and Baffin Island, producing...

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Iceland hotspot

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and also responsible for the old volcanism in northern Greenland, on Ellesmere Island, and at Alpha Ridge in the Arctic. As the northern Atlantic opened...

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List of tautological place names

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Kemi-lake), "Faroe Islands" (Literally Sheep-Island Islands, as øy is Modern Faroese for "Island"), or Saaremaa island (Island land island). On rare occasions...

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Geology of Nunavut

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deposition in northern Baffin Island and northern Ellesmere Island. Diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes formed on Somerset Island, exposed along the Brodeur...

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1257 Samalas eruption

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on the Indonesian island of Lombok. The event had a probable Volcanic Explosivity Index of 7, making it one of the largest volcanic eruptions during the...

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Borders of the oceans

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Meighen Island to Cape Stallworthy (Axel Heiberg Island) to Cape Colgate the extreme West point of Ellesmere Island; through the North shore of Ellesmere Island...

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Graphics Core Next

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10 bits per color channel. discrete GPUs: Polaris 10 (also codenamed Ellesmere) found on "Radeon RX 470" and "Radeon RX 480"-branded graphics cards Polaris...

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