Middle to Late Devonian–Carboniferous collapse basins on the Finnmark Platform and in the southwesternmost Nordkapp basin, SW Barents Sea

• Published in: Solid Earth
• Main Authors: Koehl, Jean-Baptiste, Bergh, Steffen G, Henningsen, Tormod, Faleide, Jan Inge
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Lofoten; Norway; Sørøya; Norsel; Sørøy; Måsøy; Komagelva; Rolvsøya; Finnmark; Hammerfest; Ingøya; Magerøya; Nordkapp; Nordkapp Basin; Troms
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/64811; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-67347

The SW Barents Sea margin experienced a pulse of extensional deformation in the Middle–Late Devonian through the Carboniferous, after the Caledonian Orogeny terminated. These events marked the initial stages of formation of major offshore basins such as the Hammerfest and Nordkapp basins. We mapped...