The Okse Bay Formation is an Upper

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, whe ...

formation found in

Okse Bay Okse Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Norwegian Bay by southwestern Ellesmere Island, east of Buckingham Island. Geology The thick series of strata at Okse Bay, characterized by sandstones ...

, in the

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. The formation contains many plant fossils, and fish fossils. With evident cross-bedding and thin coal layers this

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has been described as being deposited in a deltaic environment.

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Devonian Nunavut Geologic groups of Nunavut {{Nunavut-geo-stub