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

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Flowerdew, Michael J., Fleming, Edward J., Chew, David M., Morton, Andrew C., Frei, Dirk, Benedictus, Aukje, Omma, Jenny, Riley, Teal. R., Badenszki, Eszter, Whitehouse, Martin J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2023
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Vestbakken; Sørvestsnaget; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/534274/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/534274/1/geosciences-13-00091-v2.pdf; https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/13/3/91

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...