Structures and PT determination of the Caledonian metamorphism of the lower part of the Planetfjella Group in the area around Mosseldalen, northern Ny Friesland, Svalbard

• Main Author: Friberg, Magnus
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen 1994
• Subjects: Mosseldalen; Planetfjella Group; metamorphism; Caledonides; geography; PT determination; structures; geology; Ny Friesland; Svalbard; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Hoek; Harkerbreen; Veteranen; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/2370075

The archipelago of Svalbard is a key area for understanding the North Atlantic Caledonides. The pre-Devonian rocks of Svalbard are an assemblage of different terranes, probably juxtaposed by transpression during the Caledonidian orogenesis. Svalbard's Eastern Terrane consists of a thick (c. 18...