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Kukpowruk River

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The map on the right shows the localities along the Kukpowruk River sampled both by Smiley (reported in Smiley 1969a), Spicer and Herman (1996) and by Bob and Andrew Spicer in 1998. Click on the locality numbers to see further details of the sites and the fossil floras.

 

Map of Kukpowruk River Hotspot linking to Kukpowruk 98RAS17 Hotspot link to Smiley Section C page Link to Map of Smiley's Kukpowruk section D Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 1 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 2 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 3 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 4 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 5 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 6 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 7 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 8 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 9 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 10 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 11 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 12 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 13 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 14 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 15 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 16 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 17 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 18 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 19 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 20 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 21 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 22 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 23 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 24 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 25 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 26 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 277 Hotspot linking to Kukpowruk 98RAS16 Hotspot linking to Kukpowruk 98RAS17 Hotspot linking to Kukpowruk 98RAS18 Hotspot linking to Kukpowruk 98RAS19 Hotspot linking to Kukpowruk 98RAS20 Hotspot linking to Kukpowruk 98RAS21 Hotspot linking to Kukpowruk 98RAS22 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 23Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 24Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 25Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 26Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 277 Hotspot link to Smiley Section C page Link to Map of Smiley's Kukpowruk section D Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 1 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 2 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 3 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 4 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 5 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 6 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 7 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 8 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 9 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 10 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 11 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 12 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 13 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 14 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 15 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 16 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 17 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 18 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 19 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 20 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 21 Hotspot linking to page describing Kukpowruk 96 locality 22

 

 

Locality 96-16.   69° 07' 31" N  162° 41' 45" W

Corwin Formation

Specimens: 96 RAS 77, 78, 79

Description. Yellow/orange fine sandstones passing laterally upstream to lumpy brown siltstones. Siltstones overly gray/orange siltstone with small bivalves. Mirella aff. borealis and Equisetites rhizomes (very long - up to 0.5 m) occur abundantly in the siltstones.

Interpretation: Near shore interbedded marine (?) and non-marine sediments possibly representing a distal delta distributary and overbank environments.

Between localities 14 to 16 there are exposures along the river with deltaic or near shore marine sandstones and, at two sites, swamp facies represented by gray/brown silts rich in organic material and plant fossils. Podozamites predominates with Equisetites, Pityophyllum and wood fragments.

 

 
Hotspot link to Smiley Section C page Link to Map of Smiley's Kukpowruk section D

 

Hotspot link to Smiley Section C page Link to Map of Smiley's Kukpowruk section D