Provenance Response to Rifting and Separation at the Jan Mayen Microcontinent Margin

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Andrew Morton, David W. Jolley, Adam G. Szulc, Andrew G. Whitham, Dominic P. Strogen, C. Mark Fanning, Sidney R. Hemming
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: East Greenland; Jan Mayen; North Atlantic; rifting; provenance; Eocene; Oligocene; Greenland; Kap; Brewster; Jan Mayen Ridge; Kap Brewster
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12090326

The Eocene-Miocene successions recovered at DSDP sites on the Jan Mayen Ridge (NE Atlantic) and on the adjacent East Greenland margin provide a sedimentary record of the rifting and separation of the Jan Mayen Microcontinent from East Greenland. A combination of palynology, conventional heavy minera...