Early Cenozoic Eurekan strain partitioning and decoupling in central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

• Published in: Solid Earth
• Main Author: Koehl, Jean-Baptiste P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Andrée; Balliolbreen; Billefjorden; Gipsdalen; Hoek; Mimerdalen; Reindalspasset; Svalbard; Wood Bay; Wordiekammen; Andrée-Land; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1025-2021; https://se.copernicus.org/articles/12/1025/2021/

The present study of field, petrological, exploration well, and seismic data describes backward-dipping duplexes comprised of phyllitic coal and bedding-parallel décollements and thrusts localized along lithological transitions in tectonically thickened Lower Devonian to lowermost Upper Devonian; up...