Essays about: "harkerbreen group"

Found 2 essays containing the words harkerbreen group.

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

3. 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 institutionen

   Author : Magnus Friberg; [1994]
   Keywords : Mosseldalen; Planetfjella Group; metamorphism; Caledonides; geography; PT determination; structures; geology; Ny Friesland; Svalbard; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : 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