Spitsbergen Tertiary Orogenic Belt and the Spitsbergen Fracture Zone
β Scribed by LOWELL, JAMES D.
- Book ID
- 126964391
- Publisher
- The Geology Society of America
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 913 KB
- Volume
- 83
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-7606
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The West Spitsbergen Fold Belt, together with the Eurekan structures of northern Greenland and Ellesmere Island, are suggested to be the result of Late Cretaceous-Palaeocene intracontinental compressional tectonics. The Late Palaeozoic -Mesozoic rocks of western Spitsbergen are characterized by near
In their recent paper, Lyberis and Manby (1993a) argued, possibly following Hanish (1984), that the age of the deformation that affected the West Spitsbergen Orogen (Harland and Horsfield 1974) was Late Cretaceous, a view they have repeated elsewhere (e.g. Lyberis and Manby 1993b). The age of later