Evolution of the Triassic shelf in the northern Barents Sea region

Polar research

Bjørn A. Lundschien²  Atle Mørk⁴  Fridtjof Riis⁴  Tore Høy⁴  Mai Britt E. Mørk⁵ 

[1] Department of Geology and Mineral Resources Engineering, Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway;International Research Institute of Stavanger, P.O. Box 8046, NO-4068 Stavanger, NorwayCorrespondence;Department of Geology and Mineral Resources Engineering, Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway;Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Professor Olav Hanssens vei 10, P.O. Box 600, NO-4003 Stavanger, Norway;SINTEF Petroleum Research, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway

关键词: Barents Sea;    palaeogeography;    paralic;    shelf sediment;    Svalbard;    Triassic;   

DOI  :  10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00086.x

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

来源: Co-Action Publishing

【 摘 要 】

The interpretation of an unpublished data set of shallow stratigraphic cores and deep, seismic profiles from the northern Barents Shelf has provided new information about the Middle and Late Triassic development of the Barents Shelf and Svalbard. At that time, sediment sources along the eastern and south-eastern margins of the Barents Sea controlled the infilling of a previously deeper shelf area, gradually converting it into a paralic platform. Compared with the eastern source, sediment volumes from other areas were small. In our data, there are no indications of a provenance area north of Svalbard. Progradation from the ESE resulted in diachronous lithostratigraphic boundaries. The organic-rich shales of the Botneheia and Steinkobbe formations were deposited in the remaining deeper shelf areas in the western and north-western Barents Sea shelf, from the Olenekian to the latest Ladinian, by which time the progradation from the ESE had reached eastern Svalbard. In mid-Carnian times, the area of paralic de...

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