Foraminifera from Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep carbonates and adjacent shales in the Slottsmøya Member, central Spitsbergen

• Main Author: Hjálmarsdóttir, Hanna Rósa
• Other Authors: Hans Arne Nakrem, Jenø Nagy, Øyvind Hammer
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: VDP::450; Arctic; Agardhfjellet; Slottsmøya; Foraminifera*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/12565; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-31287

Benthic foraminifera have been extracted from both hydrocarbon seep carbonate structures and adjacent shales of the upper Slottsmøya Member (Agardhfjellet Formation) in central Spitsbergen. The assemblages contain both agglutinated and calcareous taxa, although the shale assemblages are virtually ag...