Basement - cover relationships in the Bodø area : The “basement” rocks in the Heggmovatn and Bodø areas: a Fennoscandian, Laurentian or suspect terrane?

• Main Author: Agyei-Dwarko, Nana Yaw
• Other Authors: Prof. Arild Andresen
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: tektonikk petrologi geokjemi; VDP::450; Greenland; Bodø; Sulitjelma; Tysfjord; Fauske; Glomfjord; East Greenland; Fennoscandian
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/12321; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-25346

Most maps and publications dealing with the geology of the Bodø-Sulitjelma area have postulated the presence of a major basement culmination; the “Heggmovatn basement dome” between Bodø and Fauske. Granitic gneisses and orthogneisses which dominate the region west of Bodø, have also been considered...