Transgressive development of coal-bearing coastal plain to shallow marine setting in a flexural compressional basin, Paleocene, Svalbard, Arctic Norway

• Published in: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
• Main Author: Lüthje, Charlotta Jenny
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Bergen 2008
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Sedimentologi: 456; Arctic; Endalen; Norway; Svalbard; Todalen; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/3854

The most extensive Paleogene succession on Svalbard, in the Arctic north of Norway, is found in the Central Tertiary Basin of Spitsbergen. It consists of a clastic basin fill of mudstone, sandstone, coal and rare conglomerate beds. A coastal plain to shallow marine setting is suggested for the Late...