Middle to Late Devonian–Carboniferous collapse basins on the Finnmark Platform and in the southwesternmost Nordkapp basin, SW Barents Sea

• Published in: Solid Earth
• Main Authors: Koehl, Jean-Baptiste, Bergh, Steffen G, Henningsen, Tormod, Faleide, Jan Inge
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Petroleumsgeologi og -geofysikk: 464; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Petroleum geology and petroleum geophysics: 464; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Sedimentology: 456; Barents Sea; Komagelva; Måsøy; Rolvsøya; Sørøy; Sørøya; Arctic; Finnmark; Hammerfest; Ingøya; Magerøya; Nordkapp; Nordkapp Basin; Troms
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/12566

Source at https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-341-2018. The SW Barents Sea margin experienced a pulse of extensional deformation in the Middle–Late Devonian through the Carboniferous, after the Caledonian Orogeny terminated. These events marked the initial stages of formation of major offshore basins such...