Lancaster Aulacogen
The Lancaster Aulacogen is a geological structure underlying Lancaster Sound and Prince Regent Inlet in the Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut, Canada. It formed as a result of extensional tectonics during the Eurekan Rifting Episode, which took place in the Canadian Arctic Rift System from the Cretaceous to the Tertiary.
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Lancaster Sound
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Q860663
Prince Regent Inlet
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Q85377
Arctic Archipelago
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Q2023
Nunavut
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extensional tectonics
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Canadian Arctic Rift System
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Q44626
Cretaceous
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Q188645
Tertiary
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Lancaster Aulacogen
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part of
part of
located in the administrative territorial entity