The Billefjorden Fault Zone north of Spitsbergen: a major terrane boundary?

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Koehl, Jean-Baptiste, Allaart, Lis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2021
• Subjects: Fault; basement terranes; seismic facies; Svalbard; tectonic; Arctic; Billefjorden; Andrée; Ny Friesland; Wijdefjorden; Austfjorden; Andrée-Land; Austfjord*; Polar Research; Wijdefjord*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/7668; https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v40.7668

The Billefjorden Fault Zone is a major terrane boundary in the Norwegian Arctic. The fault separates basement rocks of Svalbard’s north-eastern and north-western terranes that recorded discrete Precambrian tectonothermal histories and were accreted, intensely deformed and metamorphosed during the Ca...