Double-folding and thrust-front geometries associated with the Timanian and Caledonian orogenies in the Varanger Peninsula, Finnmark, North Norway

• Published in: Journal of the Geological Society
• Main Authors: Gabrielsen, Roy Helge, Roberts, David, Gjelsvik, Tone, Sygnabere, Trond Olav, Hassan, Muhammad, Faleide, Jan Inge
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: VDP::Marin geologi: 466; Barents Sea; Norway; Buttress; Varangerfjorden; Komagelva; Finnmark; North Norway; Varanger; Varangerfjord*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/97459; https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-153

On Varanger Peninsula, the roughly NW–SE-trending Trollfjorden–Komagelva Fault Zone separates Neoproterozoic successions that accumulated in a shallow-marine platformal domain to the SW of the fault from deepmarine basinal to deltaic sediments to the NE. In Ediacaran time the fault scarp acted as a...