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Pub. Id: A131 (1986)

First Page: 661

Last Page: 675

Book Title: M 40: Future Petroleum Provinces of the World

Article/Chapter: Tectonic Development of the Western Margin of the Barents Sea and Adjacent Areas

Subject Group: Basin or Areal Analysis or Evaluation

Spec. Pub. Type: Memoir

Pub. Year: 1986

Author(s): Fridtjof Riis, Jan Vollset, Morten Sand

Abstract:

Interpretation of new data from the southwestern part of the Barents Sea makes it possible to refine earlier tectonic models. Following what was probably a Devonian and Early Carboniferous rifting phase, a stable platform was developed during the Carboniferous and Permian, with a north to south trending high, to the west. The north-northeast to south-southwest Senja left-lateral fault system was active in several phases through the Cretaceous and Tertiary, up to the Oligocene. This fault system caused complex deformation in the Senja Ridge and the Bjornoya basin.

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