Middle carboniferous marine transgression, Bjørnøya, Svalbard: facies sequences from an interplay of sea level changes and tectonics

• Published in: Geological Journal
• Main Authors: Gjelberg, J., Steel, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1983
• Subjects: Bear Island; Bjørnøya; Kapp Kåre; Landnørdingsvika; Svalbard; Tilting
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gj.3350180102; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fgj.3350180102; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/gj.3350180102

Abstract The Svalbard Platform, in middle Carboniferous time, was dominated by a series of NNW‐SSE oriented, asymmetric rift basins. The Landnørdingsvika Formation represents the infill of one such basin in the Bjørnøya (Bear Island) area and consists of red beds deposited during a regional rise of...