Impact of Timanian thrust systems on the late Neoproterozoic–Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of the Barents Sea and Svalbard

Koehl, Jean-Baptiste P.; Magee, Craig; Anell, Ingrid M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-85-2022

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-85-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-85-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

Research article

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12 Jan 2022

Research article |

| 12 Jan 2022

Impact of Timanian thrust systems on the late Neoproterozoic–Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of the Barents Sea and Svalbard

Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Craig Magee, and Ingrid M. Anell

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-85-2022-supplement

Data sets

"Replication data for "Impact of Timanian thrust systems on the late Neoproterozoic–Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of the Barents Sea and Svalbard"" Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl https://doi.org/10.18710/CE8RQH

Short summary

The present study shows evidence of fault systems (large cracks in the Earth's crust) hundreds to thousands of kilometers long and several kilometers thick extending from northwestern Russia to the northern Norwegian Barents Sea and the Svalbard Archipelago using seismic, magnetic, and gravimetric data. The study suggests that the crust in Svalbard and the Barents Sea was already attached to Norway and Russia at ca. 650–550 Ma, thus challenging existing models.