Basement-cover relationships in the Harkerbreen Group of the northern Ny Friesland Caledonides, Svalbard

• Main Author: Hellman, Fredrik
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen 1994
• Subjects: Harkerbreen Group; geology; geography; Ny Friesland; Caledonides; Svalbard; basement-cover relationships; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Polhem; Bangenhuk; Harkerbreen; Boulder Falls; Instrumentberget; Rittervatnet
• Online Access: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/2370084

Mapping and isotopic work in the Instrumentberget area has shown that a granitic gneiss, previously referred to the Bangenhuk Formation, is unconformably overlain by a younger meta-sedimentary unit with a basal conglomerate horizon, previously included in the Rittervatnet Formation. In this paper it...