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Early Cenozoic Eurekan strain partitioning and decoupling in central Spitsbergen, Svalbard
Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl
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Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), University of Oslo, P.O.
Box 1028 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway
Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway in
Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Research Centre for Arctic Petroleum Exploration (ARCEx), University
of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
CAGE – Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate,
9037 Tromsø, Norway
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Short summary
By using seismic data and fieldwork, this contribution shows that soft, coal-rich sedimentary rocks absorbed most of early Cenozoic, Eurekan, contractional deformation in central Spitsbergen, thus suggesting that no contractional deformation event is needed in the Late Devonian to explain the deformation differences among late Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. It also shows that the Billefjorden Fault Zone, a major crack in the Earth's crust in Svalbard, is probably segmented.
By using seismic data and fieldwork, this contribution shows that soft, coal-rich sedimentary...
