Appendix 8. Basin evolution Province: West Greenland–East Canada Geographic Location: Baffin Bay Basin Compiler: Schenk chart for the Baffin Bay Basin (52080104) Assessment Unit Assessment Unit: Baffin Bay Basin (52080104) Date: 5/9/08 Earth System Basin Evolution Petroleum System Average m.y. RSL Source Global Sea Level 2 Rocks Temperature Curve Geologic Time Scale m 2 % of world’s total / petroleum reserves Modified from Frakes Modified from Golonka and Kiessling, From Gradstein and others (2004) generated by source et al. (1992) and (2002) and Hardenbol and others Barrett (2003) (1998). km mW Modified from Ulmishek and Klemme (1990) Also showing: Oceanic Anoxic Events o o Age Eon Era Period Epoch Ma Elevation/depth - m Tectonic setting Basin formation or uplift Subsidence rate - m/ Paleolatitude Paleoclimate Heat flow - Folding, faulting and igneous activity Source rock Reservoir rock Seals Traps Maturation and migration Petroleum loss 15 20 C 200 100 0m Basin area - Rate of clastic input Sedimentation and erosion M Pleistocene E Gelasian Piacenzian 70 NP 45 Pliocene Zanclean Messinian 70 NP H 45 Tortonian Serravallian 70 NP 45 Miocene Langhian Neogene Burdigalian 2 70 NP 45 12.5 20 Aquitanian 68 CT H 45 Chattian Oligocene 68 CT 45 Rupelian 252,000 Km 68 CT 45 Passive Margin Priabonian Small Ocean Basin Cenozoic 68 CT H 45 Bartonian 40 66 WT 45 Eocene Lutetian 66 WT H 45 Sea Floor Spreading? Paleogene Ypresian Thanetian Selandian 60 2.8 Paleocene Danian Maastrichtian Campanian 80 Late Santonian Coniacian Turonian Cenomanian 100 Albian 29.0 Cretaceous Aptian 120 Early Barremian Hauterivian 2.6 Valanginian 140 Berriasian Tithonian Mesozoic 25.0 Late Kimmeridgian Oxfordian 160 Callovian Bathonian Middle Bajocian Aalenian Jurassic Toarcian 180 Pliensbachian Early Sinemurian Hettangian 200 Rhaetian Norian Late 1.2 220 Carnian Triassic Ladinian Middle 240 Anisian Early Olenekian Induan Changhsingian Lopingian Wuchiapingian Phanerozoic 260 Capitanian Guadalupian Wordian Roadian Kungurian Permian Artinskian 280 Cisuralian Sakmarian 8.0 Asselian 300 Gzhelian Late Kasimovian Middle Moscovian Early Bashkirian Pennsylvanian 320 Late Serpukhovian 0.4 Carboniferous Middle Visean 340 Mississippian Early Tournaisian 360 8.0 Famennian Late Frasnian 380 Givetian Devonian Middle Eifelian 0.3 400 Paleozoic Emsian Early Pragian Lochkovian Pridoli Ludfordian 420 Ludlow Gorstian Wenlock Homerian Sheinwoodian 9.0 Telychian Silurian Llandovery Aeronian 440 Rhuddanian Hirnantian Upper 460 Darriwilian Middle Ordovician Lower 480 Tremadocian 1.0 Furongian Paibian 500 Middle Cambrian 520 Lower 540 560 0.2 Ediacaran Proterozoic 580 Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth.