Depositional environment and apparent age of the Fauske carbonate conglomerate, North Norwegian Caledonides.

• Main Authors: Heldal, Tom, Fallick, Anthony E., Gorokhov, Igor M., Roberts, David, Melezhik, Victor A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: MARMOR; KONGLOMERAT; OMDANNING; PROTEROZOIKUM; SILUR; TEKTONIKK; Fauske; Saltdal; Rognan
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2674210

The Fauske conglomerate represents a rather rare case of a monomict carbonate conglomerate in the Late Neoproterozoic to Silurian, lithostratigraphic successions of the Norwegian Caledonides. Lithological varieties of this conglomerate unit from the Løvgavlen quarry have a highly decorative quality...