Early Cenozoic Eurekan strain partitioning and decoupling in central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

• Published in: Solid Earth
• Main Author: Koehl, Jean-Baptiste P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2021
• Subjects: Andrée; Balliolbreen; Billefjorden; Gipsdalen; Hoek; Mimerdalen; Reindalspasset; Svalbard; Wood Bay; Wordiekammen; Andrée-Land; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/86281; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-88928; https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1025-2021

The present study of field, petrological, exploration well, and seismic data describes backward-dipping duplexes comprised of phyllitic coal and bedding-parallel décollements and thrusts localized along lithological transitions in tectonically thickened Lower Devonian to lowermost Upper Devonian; up...