Paleogene sedimentation in Central Basin of Svalbard - Depositional conditions, geochemical and mineralogical variations across PETM

• Main Author: Salman, Ahmad
• Other Authors: Professor Henning Dypvik and Professor Jenö Nagy
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: VDP::450; Svalbard; Frysjaodden; Grumantbyen; Gilsonryggen; Marstranderbreen; Central Basin; Grumantby*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/12555; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-28072

This study deals with the recunstruction of depositional environments and development of transgressive-regressive sequences within the upper Grumantbyen Formation and lower Frysjaodden Formation in the Central Basin. Data from sedimentary field logging, XRD and geochemical analysis has been integrat...