Devonian–Carboniferous extension and Eurekan inversion along an inherited WNW–ESE-striking fault system in Billefjorden, Svalbard

• Main Authors: Koehl, Jean-Baptiste P., Allaart, Lis, Noormets, Riko
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: F1000 Research Limited
• Subjects: Svalbard;Billefjorden;Devonian;décollement;Timanian;Svalbardian;Eurekan;Cenozoic; Barents Sea; Billefjorden; Dickson Land; Petuniabukta; Svalbard; Wood Bay; Wordiekammen; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15936.2

Background The Billefjorden area in central Spitsbergen hosts thick Lower–lowermost Upper Devonian, late–post-Caledonian collapse deposits presumably deformed during the Late Devonian Svalbardian Orogeny. These rocks are juxtaposed against Proterozoic basement rocks along the Billefjorden Fault Zone...