Controls on deposition of shallow marine carbonates and evaporites – lower Permian Gipshuken Formation, central Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Authors: Sorento, Tone, Olaussen, Snorre, Stemmerik, Lars
• Other Authors: Hendry, Jim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Gipshuken; Norway; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sed.12640; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/sed.12640; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/sed.12640

Abstract The interbedded shallow marine carbonates and evaporites of the 95 to 105 m thick lower Permian Vengeberget member in central Spitsbergen form a lowstand to possibly early transgressive wedge sandwiched between open marine highstand carbonates along the northern margin of Pangea. Deposition...