Sedimentology and architecture of a deep-water turbidite system; Kongsfjord Formation, Finnmark, northern Norway

• Main Author: Alain, Lucie
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2022
• Subjects: VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Sedimentology: 456; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Sedimentologi: 456; GEO-3900; Kongsfjord; Norway; Finnmark; Kongsfjord*; Northern Norway; Varanger
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/25426

The Kongsfjord Formation is a Late Precambrian deep-marine sedimentary succession exposed along the northern coastline of the Varanger Peninsula, northern Norway. Several studies in the 1970s and 1980s led to the recognition of the Formation as an ancient submarine fan system and to the identificati...