The Mjølnir Impact Crater in the central Barents Sea - a potential hydrocarbon system?

• Main Author: Rein, Sindre Arnesen
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2020
• 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; GEO-3900; Barents Sea; Hekkingen; Nordkapp; Nordkapp Basin; steinkobbe
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/21885

A meteor impact event on the Bjameland Platform in the Norwegian Barents Sea about 142 ± 2.6 million years ago formed the Mjølnir Impact Crater. The structure has diameter of 40 km impacting the Mesozoic stratigraphy, and has previously been investigated with emphasis on the dynamics of the impact,...