Microbiotas of the Late Precambrian Hunnberg Formation, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

• Main Author: Knoll, Andrew
• Language: English
• Published: The Paleontological Society 1984
• Subjects: http://www.journalofpaleontology.org/; Nordaustlandet; Svalbard
• Online Access: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4554331

A distinctive carbonate shallowing-upward sequence occurs within the Upper Riphean (750-800 Ma) Hunnberg Formation of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. Clastic limestones deposited in an open coastal marine environment pass upward into columnar stromatolitic bioherms, and these, in turn, are overlain by fin...