The Mallik Anticline is a geologic structure in the Mackenzie Delta in the Canadian Arctic. Tectonics throughout the Cenozoic, with compressional phases in the early Eocene to the late Miocene, formed this large, domed structure that is today an important source of hydrocarbons. Gas hydrates occur in the clastic sedimentary rocks of the Oligocene to Pleistocene Kugmallite, Mackenzie Bay, and Iperk sequences, which were essentially formed by deltaic processes. The presence of hydrocarbon gases within the permafrost zone in the Canadian Arctic has led to extensive exploration and production activities in the region since the mid-1960s, and the investigations by geologists and geophysicists have already been published in numerous scientific articles to date.
The associated report (Chabab and Kempka, 2023) describes the implementation of the first field-scale 3D static geologic model of the Mallik site, which was created using data from well logs and 2D seismic reflection profiles. The dataset presented here provides elevation depths and thickness data of the three distinct sequence boundaries Kugmallit-Richards, Mackenzie Bay-Kugmallit and Iperk-Mackenzie Bay as well as fault data from the Mallik site.
This publication contains tools for statistical evaluation and exploration of data published by Radosavljevic et al. (2016). These data contain bulk geochemistry data (total organic carbon, nitrogen, stable carbon isotope) and granulometry of nearshore samples in the vicinity of Herschel Island, Yukon, Canadian Beaufort Sea. In addition, the functions of the script herein provide a means for summaries and comparison with terrestrial (Couture, 2010; Tanski et al., 2017; Obu et al., 2016) and marine (a subset of Naidu et al., 2000) data. The tools are contained in a script written for the R software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The script (sediments_geochemistry_plots_and_summaries.r) is richly documented and explains the functionality. Each data file also contains a description of the data in a comma separated file (csv).The functions of the script are:myinteract() - interactive modemysum() - provides numerical summaries for WBP and TB, a box plot and runs a Two-sided Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon testmyloc() - provides numerical summaries and comparisons among the current study, marine, and terrestrial samples, a box plot and runs a Two-sided Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon testmyseds() - provides numerical summaries and comparisons of grain size data among the current studymycums() - plots cumulative frequency curves of grain size distributions by transectThe package contains (included in the zip folder):sediments_geochemistry_plots_and_summaries.r - script filegeochemistry_data_including_other_studies.csv - contains data by Radosavljevic et al. (2016) and other studies in the regionVolFrequenciesCoordsTransects.csv - contains volumetric grain size frequenciesgranulometry_stats.csv - contains summary statistics of grain size dataTransectSampleIndex.csv - provides an index of transectsTransectMap.png - an overview map of sample transects