Tonian deltaic and storm-influenced marine sedimentation on the edge of Laurentia: the Veteranen Group of northeastern Spitsbergen, Svalbard

• Published in: Sedimentary Geology
• Main Authors: Gibson, TM, Millikin, AEG, Anderson, RP, Myrow, PM, Rooney, AD, Strauss, JV
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021
• Subjects: Akademikerbreen; Arctic; Faksevågen; Greenland; Hoek; Norway; Ny Friesland; Svalbard; Veteranen; East Greenland; North Atlantic; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2021.106011; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cd19d6d8-f50e-4460-8091-1903e5cd7439

The Hecla Hoek succession of northeastern Svalbard, Norway, is an ~7 km thick Tonian– Ordovician sedimentary succession that overlies Stenian–Tonian felsic igneous and metasedimentary rocks. The carbonate-dominated upper Tonian–Ediacaran (ca. 820–600 Ma) Akademikerbreen and Polarisbreen groups have...