Palaeomagnetic results from the Middle Carboniferous rocks of the Hornsund region, southern Spitsbergen: preliminary report

• Main Authors: Krzysztof Michalski, Marek Lewandowski
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Key words; Arctic; Spitsbergen; Palaeozoic; palaeomagnetism; palaeogeography; tectonics; Hornsund; Hyrnefjellet; Svalbard; Tilting
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.600.4828; http://www.polar.pan.pl/ppr25/ppr25-169.pdf

ABSTRACT: Palaeomagnetic investigation of the Upper Carboniferous clastic Hyrnefjellet Formation from opposite limbs of the Hyrnefjellet Anticline in southern Spitsbergen (Sval− bard Archipelago) uncovered two components of NRM. Direction C1 (D = 224.6°; I = –27.9°; = 22.40; 95 % = 5.6°) is of prefo...