Carboniferous Cyclic Sedimentation and Micropaleontology of Bear Island, Arctic Norway

• Published in: Newsletters on Stratigraphy
• Main Authors: Gradstein, Felix M., Davydov, Vladimir I., Hammer, Øyvind
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks 2013
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Bashkirian; Bogevika member; cyclic sedimentation; fusulinid foraminifers; paleozoic stratigraphy; CGISS; Earth Sciences; Geophysics and Seismology; Arctic; Bear Island; Bogevika; Efuglvika; Kobbebukta; Norway
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/geo_facpubs/176; https://doi.org/10.1127/0078-0421/2013/0036

A stratigraphic study was made of sediments belonging in the Bogevika Member of the Kapp Kåra Formation along Kobbebukta Beach on northern Bear Island, Barents Sea. The Bogevika Member consists of limestones, shales and sandstones organized in a series of small-scale ( 10 m thick) shoaling upward un...