The West Spitsbergen Fold Belt: The result of Late Cretaceous‐Palaeocene Greenland‐Svalbard convergence?

Abstract 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 characterize...

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Published in:Geological Journal
Main Authors: Lyberis, Nikos, Manby, Geoff
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1993
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gj.3350280203
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