Grenvillian and Caledonian evolution of eastern Svalbard – a tale of two orogenies

• Published in: Terra Nova
• Main Authors: Johansson, Åke, Gee, David G., Larionov, Alexander N., Ohta, Yoshihide, Tebenkov, Alexander M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Barents Sea; Greenland; Nordaustlandet; Svalbard; East Greenland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00616.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-3121.2005.00616.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00616.x

Abstract Svalbard is located in the north‐west corner of the Barents Sea shelf and the Eurasian Plate, in a key area for interpreting Caledonian and older orogens in the Arctic region. Recent U–Pb dating in the Nordaustlandet Terrane of eastern Svalbard shows this terrane to consist of a Grenville‐a...