Cretaceous-Paleogene Low Temperature History of the Southwestern Province, Svalbard, Revealed by (U-Th)/He Thermochronometry: Implications for High Arctic Tectonism

• Main Author: Barnes, Christopher
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2016
• Subjects: U-Th/He thermochronology; Southwestern Province; West Spitsbergen Fold-and-Thrust Belt; Wandel Hav Mobile Belt; Arctic; Svalbard; Greenland; Wandel; Wandel Hav; Central Basin; Wandel hav; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-263; http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/35305

The High Arctic has been a complex region of collisional and extensional tectonism through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Svalbard, the sub-aerial exposure of the northwestern Barents Shelf, is an excellent natural laboratory investigating for High Arctic tectonism. Using apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He lo...