Fluid-flow expressions at Vestnesa Ridge of the NW -Svalbard Margin

• Main Author: Frantzen, Jon Hermann Pilskog
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2008
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Marin geologi: 466; Applied geophysics; Fluid flow; Pockmark; Acoustic chimney; Vestnesa Ridge; Knipovich Ridge; Molloy Transform; Kongsfjorden channel; Marin geology; GEO-3900; Molloy; Svalbard; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; Svalbard margin
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/1734

The Vestnesa Ridge is a 100 km long and ≈3 km wide sediment drift NW of the Svalbard Margin deposited on young oceanic crust. The crest of the Vestnesa Ridge is pierced by 133 pockmarks, where the orientation and elongation is controlled mainly by processes such as positioning of faulting, creeping...