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Pavy Formation

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The Pavy Formation is interpreted to be fluvial in origin. Trough-crossbedded sandstone facies dominate this formation and were probably channel deposits of a braided river system, with interbeds of siltstone and mudrock representing floodplain deposits. Where thicker intervals of mudrock occur,
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backswamp ponds or shallow-lake conditions were probably present. Only at Watercourse Valley and Pavy River did conditions stabilize long enough for swamps to develop, producing thick coal beds.
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Heer, O (1878), "Die Miocene Flora des Grinnell-Landes gegründet auf die von Capitan H.E. Feilden und Dr. E. Moss in der Nähe des Kap Murchison gesammelten fossilen Pflanzen",
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Flora Fossilis Arctica: Die Fossile Flora der Polarländer
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nunavut
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Index

Stratigraphic range
Thanetian
Formation
Siltstone
Coal
Coordinates
81°42′N 64°24′W / 81.7°N 64.4°W / 81.7; -64.4
Approximate paleocoordinates
74°18′N 13°18′W / 74.3°N 13.3°W / 74.3; -13.3
Ellesmere Island
Nunavut
Canada
Sverdrup Basin
Pavy River
Pavy Formation is located in Canada
Pavy Formation is located in Nunavut
geologic formation
Nunavut
fossil
Carabites feildenianus
Thanetian
Paleocene
period
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nunavut
Margaret Formation
Categories
Paleogene Nunavut
Paleocene Series of North America
Thanetian Stage
Siltstone formations

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