Sverdrup Basin Magmatic Province

The Sverdrup Basin Magmatic Province is a large igneous province located on Axel Heiberg Island and Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada near the rifted margin of the Arctic Ocean at the end of Alpha Ridge.[1]

Dragon Cliffs of the Strand Fiord Formation

With an area of 550,110 km², the Sverdrup Basin Magmatic Province forms part of the larger High Arctic Large Igneous Province and consists of flood basalts, dikes and sills [2] which form two volcanic formations called the Ellesmere Island Volcanics and Strand Fiord Formation.

The flood basalt lava flows are similar to those of the Columbia River Basalt Group in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

See also

• Ashton F. Embry
• Volcanism of Canada
• Volcanism of Northern Canada
• List of volcanoes in Canada

References

1. Robert Meneley (2008). "The Significance of Oil in the Sverdrup Basin" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
2. Deegan, F.M.; Troll, V.R.; Bédard, J.H.; Evenchick, C.A.; Dewing, K.; Grasby, S.; Geiger, H.; Freda, C.; Misiti, V.; Mollo, S. (May 2016). "The stiff upper LIP: investigating the High Arctic Large Igneous Province". Geology Today. 32 (3): 92–98. doi:10.1111/gto.12138.

• Igneous, metamorphic and volcanic studies
• Flood basalts of the Sverdrup Basin Magmatic Province, Canadian Arctic Islands, Nunavut: an overview