Deciphering the Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Varanger Peninsula from Igneous Geochemistry and Geophysics

• Main Author: Bergsjö, Mattias
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper 2024
• Subjects: Varanger Peninsula; mafic dyke swarms; geochemical analysis; geophysical modelling; Svalbard; Geology; Geologi; Barents Sea; Komagelva; Kongsfjord; Norway; Tanafjorden; Varangerfjorden; Kongsfjord*; Northern Norway; Varanger; Varangerfjord*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-537817

The Varanger Peninsula in northern Norway is made up of two geological units of metasedimentary sequences, the Barents Sea Region and the Tanafjorden-Varangerfjorden Region. The two units are divided by a large, NW-SE oriented strike slip fault zone called the Trollfjorden Komagelva Fault Zone. Mafi...