TY - BOOK
T1 - Palaeogene tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Western Barents Sea, Svalbard and Northeast Greenland
AU - Petersen, Thomas Guldborg
N1 - Ph.d.-grad opnået ved mundtligt forsvar 21. september 2016
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This thesis contains a detailed interpretation of seismic facies of the Paleogene sedimentarysuccession on the Northeast Greenland Shelf. Based on this, a model for the depostionalenvironment and its interplay with the large scale plate tectonic evolution is produced. The modelsuggests deposition in a marine environment, where the break-up related tectonism controlled thedepositional geometries. A correlation of the Paleogene sedimentary succession on the conjugatemargins of the NE Greenland and West Barents Sea shelves is suggested. By assuming that thethermal history of the margins is similar and by using the dated volcanic events onshore Greenlandtemporal constraints of the deposition on the Northeast Greenland Shelf are much improved. Basedon this correlation, the succession can be subdivided into pre-, syn- and post- volcanic intervals.The provenance of the sedimentary succession deposited in the Central Tertiary Basin onshoreSvalbard is analysed using radiometric dating of zircons. The succession shows an easterly sourcefor the Paleocene, and a pronounced shift to an easterly source during the Eocene, as a response tothe evolving Eurekan Orogeny.
AB - This thesis contains a detailed interpretation of seismic facies of the Paleogene sedimentarysuccession on the Northeast Greenland Shelf. Based on this, a model for the depostionalenvironment and its interplay with the large scale plate tectonic evolution is produced. The modelsuggests deposition in a marine environment, where the break-up related tectonism controlled thedepositional geometries. A correlation of the Paleogene sedimentary succession on the conjugatemargins of the NE Greenland and West Barents Sea shelves is suggested. By assuming that thethermal history of the margins is similar and by using the dated volcanic events onshore Greenlandtemporal constraints of the deposition on the Northeast Greenland Shelf are much improved. Basedon this correlation, the succession can be subdivided into pre-, syn- and post- volcanic intervals.The provenance of the sedimentary succession deposited in the Central Tertiary Basin onshoreSvalbard is analysed using radiometric dating of zircons. The succession shows an easterly sourcefor the Paleocene, and a pronounced shift to an easterly source during the Eocene, as a response tothe evolving Eurekan Orogeny.
UR - https://rex.kb.dk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=KGL01010312699&context=L&vid=NUI&search_scope=KGL&tab=default_tab&lang=da_DK
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - Palaeogene tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Western Barents Sea, Svalbard and Northeast Greenland
PB - Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen
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