Depositional history of the youngest strata of the Sassendalen Group (Bravaisberget Formation, Middle Triassic–Carnian) in southern Spitsbergen, Svalbard

• Published in: Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae
• Main Authors: Krajewski, Krzysztof P., Weitschat, Wolfgang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 2015
• Subjects: Svalbard; Hornsund; Van Keulenfjorden; Sassendalen; Bravaisberget; Passhatten; Somovbreen; Karentoppen; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/asgp/article/view/23635; https://doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2014.005

The Bravaisberget Formation of southern Spitsbergen (the youngest formation of the Sassendalen Group; Middle Triassic–Carnian) comprises a succession of organic-rich and sandy phosphogenic deposits that developed in a marginal part of the Svalbard basin, in response to a high biological productivity...