The Importance of Eurekan Mountains on Cenozoic Sediment Routing on the Western Barents Shelf

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Michael J. Flowerdew, Edward J. Fleming, David M. Chew, Andrew C. Morton, Dirk Frei, Aukje Benedictus, Jenny Omma, Teal. R. Riley, Eszter Badenszki, Martin J. Whitehouse
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: source-to-sink; sediment provenance; Eocene; Paleogene; Spitsbergen fold-and-thrust belt; Central Tertiary Basin; Torsk Formation; Barents Sea; Vestbakken; Sørvestsnaget; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13030091

The importance of topography generated by Eocene Eurekan deformation as a sediment source for sandstones deposited on the western Barents Shelf margin is evaluated through a sediment provenance study conducted on wellbore materials retrieved from Spitsbergen and from the Vestbakken Volcanic Province...