Marie Bay

This article is about the NWT bay. For the Nunavut bay, see Princess Marie Bay.
Marie Bay
Marie Bay is located in Northwest Territories
Marie Bay
Marie Bay
LocationMelville Island
Coordinates76°13′03″N 115°20′10″W / 76.21750°N 115.33611°W / 76.21750; -115.33611 (Marie Bay)[1]
Basin countriesCanada
SettlementsUninhabited

Marie Bay is a fjord on the Northwest tip of Melville Island.[2][3][4] Marie Bay lies on the part of Melville Island that is in the Northwest Territories while the eastern part of the island is in Nunavut.

Oil sands deposits were found in the Marie Bay region[2] and are estimated to hold 100 to 250 million barrels of oil.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ^ "Marie Bay". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. 3 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Canadian Arctic Islands" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2010. Oil shows in Mesozoic sandstones at many localities within the western basin, e.g., Marie Bay oil sands on Melville Island (Bjorne Formation)
  3. ^ "Melville Island". University of Guelph. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2010. Melville Island's coastline is gouged with many large inlets and bays, and ranges in elevation from low beaches to 300-metre cliffs. Its interior topography consists of three main sections. The first is a plateau formed by Dundas Peninsula and the two promontories between Barry Bay and Purchase Bay; the second region is a low plain in the northeast, which extends from Marie Bay east to Long Point, and from Sabine Peninsula north of the land between Eldridge Bay and Sherard Bay; and the third section is a folded upland lying between the first two regions.
  4. ^ H. P. Trettin, L. V. Hills (2 April 1967). "Triassic Tar Sands of Melville Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago". OnePetro. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  5. ^ Robert Meneley (2008). "The Significance of Oil in the Sverdrup Basin" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2010. The 100 million barrel tar sand deposit at Marie Bay (Trettin and Hills, 1966) on western Melville Island is held in a possible stratigraphic trap in the Bjorne Formation where conventional oil has been highly degraded by exposure at surface.
  6. ^ Tom Brent (23 November 2009). "Reflection Seismic Data from Legacy Hydrocarbon Exploration of Cenozoic and Older Basins of the Canadian High Arctic". Geological Survey of Canada. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2010. Petroleum exploration of Canada's High Arctic began with a well drilled on each of Melville, Cornwallis and Bathurst islands between 1961 and 1963. Seismic exploration however, lagged behind and Panarctic Oils Ltd. did not shoot the first line, north from Marie Bay on Melville Island until 1968.
  7. ^ F. G. Rayer (17 December 2007). "Exploration prospects and future petroleum potential of the Canadian Arctic Islands". Journal of Petroleum Geology. 3 (4): 367–412. doi:10.1111/j.1747-5457.1981.tb00938.x. Retrieved 16 March 2010. The Marie Bay Bjorne tar sands on NW Melville contain 100-250 million brl (in place) ...


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