Facies Architecture and Paleogeography of the Battfjellet Formation, Rypefjellet, Spitsbergen

• Main Author: Skarpeid, Silje Skorve
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Bergen 2010
• Subjects: Petroleumsgeologi; Geovitenskap; 756199; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Petroleumsgeologi og -geofysikk: 464; Battfjellet; Central Basin; Svalbard; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/4053

The shallow marine sandstones of the Battfjellet Fm are part of a regressive mega-sequence that represent the last stages of infilling of the Paleogene Central Basin in Spitsbergen. The Battfjellet Fm is believed to be of Eocene age and was deposited in a foreland basin that developed in front of th...