Microfossil-based biostratigraphy of the Precambrian Hecla Hoek sequence, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Author: Knoll, A. H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1982
• Subjects: Svalbard; Greenland; Hoek; Nordaustlandet; Murchisonfjorden; Celsiusberget; Franklinsundet; Kapp Lord; Roaldtoppen; Westmanbukta; East Greenland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001675680002608x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S001675680002608X

Summary The Precambrian Murchisonfjorden Supergroup of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, contains approximately 6000 m of folded, but essentially unmetamorphosed, shallow marine sedimentary rocks. The abundant microfossils found through much of the section allow confident biostratigraphic subdivision of the...