Digitising Svalbard’s geology: the Festningen digital outcrop model
The renowned Festningen section in the outer part of Isfjorden, western Spitsbergen, offers a c. 7 km-long nearly continuous stratigraphic section of Lower Carboniferous to Cenozoic strata, spanning nearly 300 million years of geological history. Tectonic deformation associated with the Paleogene We...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/27692 2023-05-15T16:55:56+02:00 Digitising Svalbard’s geology: the Festningen digital outcrop model Senger, Kim Betlem, Peter Birchall, Thomas Gonzaga Jr., Luis Grundvåg, Sten-Andreas Horota, Rafael Kenji Laake, Andreas Kuckero, Lilith Mørk, Atle Planke, Sverre Rodes, Nil Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra 2022-03-10 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27692 https://doi.org/10.3997/1365-2397.fb2022021 eng eng Taylor and Francis Group First Break Senger K, Betlem P, Birchall T, Gonzaga Jr. LJ, Grundvåg S.-A., Horota RK, Laake, Kuckero L, Mørk A, Planke S, Rodes, Smyrak-Sikora AA. Digitising Svalbard’s geology: the Festningen digital outcrop model. First Break. 2022;40(3):47-55 FRIDAID 2031394 doi:10.3997/1365-2397.fb2022021 0263-5046 1365-2397 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27692 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2022 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.3997/1365-2397.fb2022021 2022-12-08T00:02:36Z The renowned Festningen section in the outer part of Isfjorden, western Spitsbergen, offers a c. 7 km-long nearly continuous stratigraphic section of Lower Carboniferous to Cenozoic strata, spanning nearly 300 million years of geological history. Tectonic deformation associated with the Paleogene West-Spitsbergen-Fold-and-Thrust belt tilted the strata to near-vertical, allowing easy access to the section along the shoreline. The Festningen section is a regionally important stratigraphic reference profile, and thus a key locality for any geologist visiting Svalbard. The lithology variations, dinosaur footprints, and the many fossil groups, record more than 300 million years of continental drift, climate change, and sea level variations. In addition, the Festningen section is the only natural geoscientific monument protected by law (i.e. geotope) in Svalbard. In this contribution, we present a digital outcrop model (DOM) of the Festningen section processed from 3762 drone photographs. The resulting high-resolution model offers detail down to 7.01 mm, covers an area of 0.8 km2 and can be freely accessed via the Svalbox database. Through Svalbox, we also put the Festningen model in a regional geological context by comparing it to nearby offshore seismic, exploration boreholes penetrating the same stratigraphy and publications on the deep-time paleoclimate trends recorded at Festningen. Article in Journal/Newspaper Isfjord* Isfjord* Isfjorden Isfjorden Svalbard Spitsbergen University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Svalbard First Break 40 3 47 55 |
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The renowned Festningen section in the outer part of Isfjorden, western Spitsbergen, offers a c. 7 km-long nearly continuous stratigraphic section of Lower Carboniferous to Cenozoic strata, spanning nearly 300 million years of geological history. Tectonic deformation associated with the Paleogene West-Spitsbergen-Fold-and-Thrust belt tilted the strata to near-vertical, allowing easy access to the section along the shoreline. The Festningen section is a regionally important stratigraphic reference profile, and thus a key locality for any geologist visiting Svalbard. The lithology variations, dinosaur footprints, and the many fossil groups, record more than 300 million years of continental drift, climate change, and sea level variations. In addition, the Festningen section is the only natural geoscientific monument protected by law (i.e. geotope) in Svalbard. In this contribution, we present a digital outcrop model (DOM) of the Festningen section processed from 3762 drone photographs. The resulting high-resolution model offers detail down to 7.01 mm, covers an area of 0.8 km2 and can be freely accessed via the Svalbox database. Through Svalbox, we also put the Festningen model in a regional geological context by comparing it to nearby offshore seismic, exploration boreholes penetrating the same stratigraphy and publications on the deep-time paleoclimate trends recorded at Festningen. |
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Senger, Kim Betlem, Peter Birchall, Thomas Gonzaga Jr., Luis Grundvåg, Sten-Andreas Horota, Rafael Kenji Laake, Andreas Kuckero, Lilith Mørk, Atle Planke, Sverre Rodes, Nil Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra |
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Senger, Kim Betlem, Peter Birchall, Thomas Gonzaga Jr., Luis Grundvåg, Sten-Andreas Horota, Rafael Kenji Laake, Andreas Kuckero, Lilith Mørk, Atle Planke, Sverre Rodes, Nil Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra Digitising Svalbard’s geology: the Festningen digital outcrop model |
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Senger, Kim Betlem, Peter Birchall, Thomas Gonzaga Jr., Luis Grundvåg, Sten-Andreas Horota, Rafael Kenji Laake, Andreas Kuckero, Lilith Mørk, Atle Planke, Sverre Rodes, Nil Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra |
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Digitising Svalbard’s geology: the Festningen digital outcrop model |
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Digitising Svalbard’s geology: the Festningen digital outcrop model |
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Digitising Svalbard’s geology: the Festningen digital outcrop model |
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digitising svalbard’s geology: the festningen digital outcrop model |
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