Facies, palynostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Wilhelmøya Subgroup (Upper Triassic–Middle Jurassic) in western central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

• Published in: Norwegian Journal of Geology
• Main Authors: Rismyhr, Bjarte, Bjærke, Tor, Olaussen, Snorre, Mulrooney, Mark Joseph, Senger, Kim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society of Norway 2019
• Subjects: Wilhelmøya Subgroup; Brentskardhaugen Bed; Sequence stratigraphy; Facies analysis; Palynology; condensed unit; Arctic; Brentskardhaugen; Longyearbyen; Svalbard; Wilhelmøya; Arctic Archipelago; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/19796; https://doi.org/10.17850/njg001

The Wilhelmøya Subgroup (Norian–Bathonian) is considered as the prime storage unit for locally produced CO2 in Longyearbyen on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. We here present new drillcore and outcrop data and refined sedimentological and sequence-stratigraphic interpretations from western centr...