Eurasian Arctic Tectonics: Geology of Severnaya Zemlya (North Kara Terrane) and Relationships to the Timanide Margin of Baltica

• Main Author: Lorenz, Henning
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper 2005
• Subjects: Earth sciences; Arctic; Severnaya Zemlya; North Kara Terrane; Baltica; bedrock; geology; tectonics; Timanides; Caledonides; Geovetenskap; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Canyon River; Kanin peninsula
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-5851

The North Kara Terrane (NKT), with Severnaya Zemlya as its main outcrop area, constitutes the Palaeozoic and older rocks of the northern part of the Kara Shelf. Potential field data suggest a continuation into the eastern Barents Shelf. Several lines of evidence imply that the NKT was a part of Balt...