Polyphase deformation at the Harder Fjord Fault Zone (North Greenland)

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Authors: PIEPJOHN, K., VON GOSEN, W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2001
• Subjects: Geology; Svalbard; Greenland; Kap; Wandel; Kap Cannon; Harder Fjord; North Greenland; Wandel Sea
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756801005660; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756801005660

In North Greenland, the E–W-trending Harder Fjord Fault Zone represents a major lineament which cuts through Cambrian to Silurian deep-water sediments of the Franklinian Basin over a distance of 300 km. On both sides of the fault zone, these successions were affected by two stages of folding (F1, F2...