Essays about: "basement-cover relationships"

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  1. 1. Basement-cover relationships in the Harkerbreen Group of the northern Ny Friesland Caledonides, Svalbard

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Fredrik Hellman; [1994]
    Keywords : Harkerbreen Group; geology; geography; Ny Friesland; Caledonides; Svalbard; basement-cover relationships; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Mapping and isotopic work in the Instrumentberget area has shown that a granitic gneiss, previously referred to the Bangenhuk Formation, is unconformably overlain by a younger meta-sedimentary unit with a basal conglomerate horizon, previously included in the Rittervatnet Formation. In this paper it is suggested that the granitic gneiss, named the Instrumentberget Granitic Gneiss, occurs at a lower structural level than the Bangenhuk Formation and that this meta-sedimentary unit is the basal part of the Polhem Formation. READ MORE