The timing of the Svalbardian Orogeny in Svalbard: A review
In the Late Devonian to earliest Mississippian, Svalbard was affected by a short-lived episode of deformation named the Svalbardian Orogeny. This event resulted in intense folding and thrusting in Devonian sedimentary successions. Deformation stopped prior to the deposition of Carboniferous to Permi...
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ftoslouniv:oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/100923 2023-05-15T15:14:35+02:00 The timing of the Svalbardian Orogeny in Svalbard: A review ENEngelskEnglishThe timing of the Svalbardian Orogeny in Svalbard: A review Koehl, Jean-Baptiste P. Marshall, John E. A. Lopes, Gilda Maria Rodrigues 2022-11-08T18:11:02Z http://hdl.handle.net/10852/100923 https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1353-2022 EN eng Copernicus Publications Koehl, Jean-Baptiste P. Marshall, John E. A. Lopes, Gilda Maria Rodrigues . The timing of the Svalbardian Orogeny in Svalbard: A review. Solid Earth (SE). 2022, 13(8), 1353-1370 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/100923 2070817 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Solid Earth (SE)&rft.volume=13&rft.spage=1353&rft.date=2022 Solid Earth (SE) 13 8 1353 1370 https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1353-2022 Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY 1869-9510 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed PublishedVersion 2022 ftoslouniv https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1353-2022 2023-03-08T23:36:45Z In the Late Devonian to earliest Mississippian, Svalbard was affected by a short-lived episode of deformation named the Svalbardian Orogeny. This event resulted in intense folding and thrusting in Devonian sedimentary successions. Deformation stopped prior to the deposition of Carboniferous to Permian sedimentary strata of the Billefjorden and Gipsdalen groups, which lie unconformably over folded Devonian strata. Later on, presumed Svalbardian structures were reworked during Eurekan tectonism in the early Cenozoic and partly eroded. At present, records of Svalbardian deformation are only preserved in narrow N–S-trending belts in central, northern, western, and southern Spitsbergen. Despite extensive field studies, the timing of the Svalbardian Orogeny is poorly constrained and remains a matter of debate in places because of conflicting ages and because of the complex tectonic history of Svalbard. The present contribution aims at reviewing and discussing all available age constraints for Svalbardian tectonism, including notably palynological, paleontological, and geochronological evidence. This has great implications for the plate tectonic reconstructions of Arctic regions and for the tectonic history of Svalbard. Palynological and paleontological evidence suggest that the Mimerdalen Subgroup is upper Givetian to lower Frasnian (ca. 385–380 Ma) in age and that the Billefjorden Group is mid-Famennian to Upper Mississippian (ca. 365–325 Ma) in age, constraining the Svalbardian event in central and northern Spitsbergen to 383–365 Ma if it ever occurred. Palynological ages indicate that the Adriabukta Formation in southern Spitsbergen is Middle Mississippian and therefore cannot have been involved in the Svalbardian event, thus suggesting that all the deformation in southern Spitsbergen is early Cenozoic in age and that strain-partitioning processes had a major role in localizing deformation in weaker stratigraphic units. The few geochronological age constraints yielding Late Devonian–Mississippian ages in Svalbard ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Billefjorden Svalbard Spitsbergen Universitet i Oslo: Digitale utgivelser ved UiO (DUO) Adriabukta ENVELOPE(16.191,16.191,76.986,76.986) Arctic Billefjorden ENVELOPE(16.417,16.417,78.563,78.563) Gipsdalen ENVELOPE(16.877,16.877,78.505,78.505) Mimerdalen ENVELOPE(16.277,16.277,78.647,78.647) Svalbard Solid Earth 13 8 1353 1370 |
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In the Late Devonian to earliest Mississippian, Svalbard was affected by a short-lived episode of deformation named the Svalbardian Orogeny. This event resulted in intense folding and thrusting in Devonian sedimentary successions. Deformation stopped prior to the deposition of Carboniferous to Permian sedimentary strata of the Billefjorden and Gipsdalen groups, which lie unconformably over folded Devonian strata. Later on, presumed Svalbardian structures were reworked during Eurekan tectonism in the early Cenozoic and partly eroded. At present, records of Svalbardian deformation are only preserved in narrow N–S-trending belts in central, northern, western, and southern Spitsbergen. Despite extensive field studies, the timing of the Svalbardian Orogeny is poorly constrained and remains a matter of debate in places because of conflicting ages and because of the complex tectonic history of Svalbard. The present contribution aims at reviewing and discussing all available age constraints for Svalbardian tectonism, including notably palynological, paleontological, and geochronological evidence. This has great implications for the plate tectonic reconstructions of Arctic regions and for the tectonic history of Svalbard. Palynological and paleontological evidence suggest that the Mimerdalen Subgroup is upper Givetian to lower Frasnian (ca. 385–380 Ma) in age and that the Billefjorden Group is mid-Famennian to Upper Mississippian (ca. 365–325 Ma) in age, constraining the Svalbardian event in central and northern Spitsbergen to 383–365 Ma if it ever occurred. Palynological ages indicate that the Adriabukta Formation in southern Spitsbergen is Middle Mississippian and therefore cannot have been involved in the Svalbardian event, thus suggesting that all the deformation in southern Spitsbergen is early Cenozoic in age and that strain-partitioning processes had a major role in localizing deformation in weaker stratigraphic units. The few geochronological age constraints yielding Late Devonian–Mississippian ages in Svalbard ... |
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The timing of the Svalbardian Orogeny in Svalbard: A review |
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The timing of the Svalbardian Orogeny in Svalbard: A review |
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Koehl, Jean-Baptiste P. Marshall, John E. A. Lopes, Gilda Maria Rodrigues . The timing of the Svalbardian Orogeny in Svalbard: A review. Solid Earth (SE). 2022, 13(8), 1353-1370 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/100923 2070817 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Solid Earth (SE)&rft.volume=13&rft.spage=1353&rft.date=2022 Solid Earth (SE) 13 8 1353 1370 https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1353-2022 |
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