Palaeogene tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Western Barents Sea, Svalbard and Northeast Greenland

• Main Author: Petersen, Thomas Guldborg
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen 2015
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Greenland; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/palaeogene-tectonostratigraphic-evolution-of-the-western-barents-sea-svalbard-and-northeast-greenland(568cd49f-3b65-4133-8c06-07b3a4e20d13).html; https://soeg.kb.dk/permalink/45KBDK_KGL/fbp0ps/alma99122167550605763

This thesis contains a detailed interpretation of seismic facies of the Paleogene sedimentary succession on the Northeast Greenland Shelf. Based on this, a model for the depostional environment and its interplay with the large scale plate tectonic evolution is produced. The model suggests deposition in a marine environment, where the break-up related tectonism controlled the depositional geometries. A correlation of the Paleogene sedimentary succession on the conjugate margins of the NE Greenland and West Barents Sea shelves is suggested. By assuming that the thermal history of the margins is similar and by using the dated volcanic events onshore Greenland temporal constraints of the deposition on the Northeast Greenland Shelf are much improved. Based on this correlation, the succession can be subdivided into pre-, syn- and post- volcanic intervals. The provenance of the sedimentary succession deposited in the Central Tertiary Basin onshore Svalbard is analysed using radiometric dating of zircons. The succession shows an easterly source for the Paleocene, and a pronounced shift to an easterly source during the Eocene, as a response to the evolving Eurekan Orogeny. This thesis contains a detailed interpretation of seismic facies of the Paleogene sedimentary succession on the Northeast Greenland Shelf. Based on this, a model for the depostional environment and its interplay with the large scale plate tectonic evolution is produced. The model suggests deposition in a marine environment, where the break-up related tectonism controlled the depositional geometries. A correlation of the Paleogene sedimentary succession on the conjugate margins of the NE Greenland and West Barents Sea shelves is suggested. By assuming that the thermal history of the margins is similar and by using the dated volcanic events onshore Greenland temporal constraints of the deposition on the Northeast Greenland Shelf are much improved. Based on this correlation, the succession can be subdivided into pre-, syn- and post- volcanic intervals. The provenance of the sedimentary succession deposited in the Central Tertiary Basin onshore Svalbard is analysed using radiometric dating of zircons. The succession shows an easterly source for the Paleocene, and a pronounced shift to an easterly source during the Eocene, as a response to the evolving Eurekan Orogeny.