Early Cenozoic Eurekan strain partitioning and decoupling in central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

• Published in: Solid Earth
• Main Author: Koehl, Jean-Baptiste P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2021
• Subjects: VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450; Svalbard; Hoek; Billefjorden; Andrée; Wood Bay; Gipsdalen; Mimerdalen; Wordiekammen; Reindalspasset; Balliolbreen; Andrée-Land; Arctic; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/21542; https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1025-2021

The present study of field, petrological, exploration well, and seismic data describes backward-dipping duplexes comprised of phyllitic coal and bedding-parallel décollements and thrusts localized along lithological transitions in tectonically thickened Lower Devonian to lowermost Upper Devonian; up...