Structural development along the Billefjorden Fault Zone in the area between Kjellströmdalen and Adventdalen/Sassendalen, central Spitsbergen

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Haremo, Pål, Andresen, Arild, Dypvik, Henning, Nagy, Jenö, Elverhøi, Anders, Eikeland, Tor Arne, Johansen, Halvor
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 1990
• Subjects: Adventdalen; Billefjorden; Janusfjellet; Sassendalen; Adventelva; Juvdalskampen; Kjellströmdalen; Isfjord*; Isfjorden; Polar Research; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2384; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v8i2.6812

The Billefjorden Fault Zone represents a major lineament on Spitsbergen with a history of tectonic activity going back into the Devonian and possibly earlier. Recent structural, sedimentological and stratigraphical investigations indicate that most of the stratigraphic thickness variations within th...