Essays about: "Ny Friesland"
Found 3 essays containing the words Ny Friesland.
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1. Basement-cover relationships in the Harkerbreen Group of the northern Ny Friesland Caledonides, Svalbard
University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionenAbstract : 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
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2. Structures and PT determination of the Caledonian metamorphism of the lower part of the Planetfjella Group in the area around Mosseldalen, northern Ny Friesland, Svalbard
University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionenAbstract : The archipelago of Svalbard is a key area for understanding the North Atlantic Caledonides. The pre-Devonian rocks of Svalbard are an assemblage of different terranes, probably juxtaposed by transpression during the Caledonidian orogenesis. Svalbard's Eastern Terrane consists of a thick (c. READ MORE
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3. A petrographic and geochemical study of the Early Proterozoic, Bangenhuk granitoid rocks of Ny Friesland, Svalbard
University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionenAbstract : Old Red Sandstones and younger strata overlie a variety of deformed and metamorphosed Early Paleozoic and Precambrian rocks on Svalbard, referred to as the Hecla Hoek Complex. At least three different terranes are recognized, occurring in eastern, northwestern and southwestern areas. READ MORE