Devonian–Mississippian collapse and core complex exhumation, and partial decoupling and partitioning of Eurekan deformation as alternatives to the Ellesmerian Orogeny in Spitsbergen

• Main Author: Koehl, Jean-Baptiste P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Balliolbreen; Billefjorden; Gipsdalen; Hoek; Odellfjellet; Pyramiden; Reindalspasset; Sassenfjorden; Svalbard; Wood Bay; Sassenfjord*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/se-2019-200; https://se.copernicus.org/preprints/se-2019-200/

In the Late Devonian, Svalbard was affected by a short-lived episode of contraction called the Ellesmerian (Svalbardian) Orogeny, which resulted in top-west thrusting of Proterozoic basement rocks onto Devonian sedimentary strata along the Balliolbreen Fault, a major fault segment of the east-dippin...