Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the eastern Forlandsundet Graben, Svalbard

• Published in: Norwegian Journal of Geology
• Main Authors: Schaaf, Niklas W., Osmundsen, Per Terje, van der Lelij, Roelant, Schönenberger, Jasmin, Lenz, Olaf K., Redfield, Thomas Fitzmaurice, Senger, Kim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society of Norway 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Forlandsundet; Norway; Sarsbukta; Sarstangen; Sarsøyra; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Western Basin; Svalbard margin; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3043391; https://doi.org/10.17850/njg100-4-4

The Forlandsundet Graben, situated along the NE Atlantic continental margin in the western Svalbard archipelago in Arctic Norway, represents a unique opportunity to study a basin that evolved along an obliquely rifted margin. It is bound by N–S-trending fault zones that cross-cut the structures of t...