Circum-Arctic Structural Events: Tectonic Evolution of the Arctic Margins and Trans-Arctic Links with Adjacent Orogens

The circum-Arctic region has received considerable attention over the past several decades with vigorous debate focused on topics such as mechanisms for opening the Eurasian and Amerasian basins, the importance of plume-related magmatism in the development of the Arctic Ocean, and mechanisms for ancient terrane translation along the Arctic margins. In recognition of the 25th anniversary of the Circum-Arctic Structural Events (CASE) program, an international polar research effort organized and led by the Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR) of Germany, this volume presents results from 18 major field expeditions involving over 100 international geoscientists from a broad spectrum of disciplines. The resulting publication focuses on the Proterozoic to Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the circum-Arctic region with correlations to adjacent orogens.
Taxonomy of Cretaceous–Paleogene coniferous woods and their distribution in fossil Lagerstätten of the high latitudes
*Corresponding author: M. Dolezych. E-mails: Dolezych: Martina.Dolezych@senckenberg.de; Reinhardt: Lutz.Reinhardt@bgr.de; Kus: Jolanta.Kus@bgr.de; Annacker: annacker@naturkunde-chemnitz.de.
*Corresponding author: M. Dolezych. E-mails: Dolezych: Martina.Dolezych@senckenberg.de; Reinhardt: Lutz.Reinhardt@bgr.de; Kus: Jolanta.Kus@bgr.de; Annacker: annacker@naturkunde-chemnitz.de.
*Corresponding author: M. Dolezych. E-mails: Dolezych: Martina.Dolezych@senckenberg.de; Reinhardt: Lutz.Reinhardt@bgr.de; Kus: Jolanta.Kus@bgr.de; Annacker: annacker@naturkunde-chemnitz.de.
*Corresponding author: M. Dolezych. E-mails: Dolezych: Martina.Dolezych@senckenberg.de; Reinhardt: Lutz.Reinhardt@bgr.de; Kus: Jolanta.Kus@bgr.de; Annacker: annacker@naturkunde-chemnitz.de.
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Published:June 14, 2019
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M. Dolezych*, L. Reinhardt*, J. Kus*, V. Annacker*, 2019. "Taxonomy of Cretaceous–Paleogene coniferous woods and their distribution in fossil Lagerstätten of the high latitudes", Circum-Arctic Structural Events: Tectonic Evolution of the Arctic Margins and Trans-Arctic Links with Adjacent Orogens, Karsten Piepjohn, Justin V. Strauss, Lutz Reinhardt, William C. McClelland
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Anatomical analyses of fossil woods, supplemented by information from coal petrographic investigations, provide data for reconstructing the Cretaceous–Paleogene, mostly swampy woodland vegetation of the high latitudes. This paper is focused on the taxonomic description of conifers that have been recovered from a number of plant fossil Lagerstätten in Nathorstland, Yukon North Slope–western Mackenzie Delta, Ellesmere Island, northern Trolleland, and Kotel’nyi Island. The investigation revealed a relatively low taxonomic diversity. Wood-anatomical identification of Taxodioxylon vanderburghii provides evidence for the genus Metasequoia. The determination of Glyptostroboxylon cf. rudolphii demonstrates the most likely presence of Glyptostrobus, and the genus Cunninghamia...
- Arctic region
- Asia
- Canada
- Cenozoic
- coal
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Coniferales
- Cretaceous
- Ellesmere Island
- facies
- forests
- fossil wood
- Greenland
- Gymnospermae
- huminite
- Lagerstatten
- Larix
- lower Paleocene
- macerals
- Mackenzie Delta
- Mesozoic
- New Siberian Islands
- Northern Greenland
- Northwest Territories
- Nunavut
- outcrops
- Paleocene
- paleoecology
- Paleogene
- Pinaceae
- Plantae
- Queen Elizabeth Islands
- reflectance
- Russian Arctic
- Russian Federation
- sedimentary rocks
- Spermatophyta
- Spitsbergen
- stratigraphic boundary
- Svalbard
- taxonomy
- Tertiary
- Upper Cretaceous
- Western Canada
- Yakutia Russian Federation
- Yukon Territory
- Bache Peninsula
- Kotel'nyi Island
- Stenkul Fjord
- K-Pg boundary
- Nathorstland Spitsbergen