Although the majority of exploration wells in the Barents Sea has encountered hydrocarbons, only two fields, the Snøhvit (gas) and Goliat (oil) fields are currently in production. The geological evolution of the area, including previous deep burial and subsequent exhumation, has contributed to the leakage of hydrocarbon from many traps. Understanding the timing of hydrocarbon generation and migration, ...

The tectonic contact between the Nakkedal Nappe Complex and the Tromsø Nappe crops out NE of Tromsdalstind, 5 km E of Tromsø, Norway. Petrological- and structural analysis of the contact have been undertaken in order to contribute to a better understanding of the tectonometamorphic history of the Uppermost Allochton in the Scandianavian Caledonides. Methods such as P-T pseudosection analysis, ...

Major changes in atmospheric and ocean chemistry occurred in the Paleoproterozoic era (2.5 to 1.6 billion years ago). Increasing oxidation dramatically changed Earth’s surface, but few quantitative constraints exist on this important transition. This study describes the sedimentology, mineralogy, and geochemistry of a 2-billion-year-old, ~800-meter-thick evaporite succession from the Onega Basin in ...

The Brusque Metamorphic Complex is situated in the northern part of the Dom Feliciano Belt in the state of Santa Catarina, southeastern Brazil. The complex is composed of Neoproterozoic sequences of volcanic and sedimentary rocks, which were folded and metamorphosed at greenschist to low-amphibolite facies conditions. U-Pb dating of detrital zircon grains in five samples of clastic metasedimentary ...

This study presents the application of a costeffective, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to investigate calving dynamics at a major marine-terminating outlet glacier draining the western sector of the Greenland ice sheet. The UAV was flown over Store Glacier on three sorties during summer 2013 and acquired over 2000 overlapping, geotagged images of the calving front at an ∼ 40 cm ground sampling ...

Ocean gateways connecting ocean basins are crucial for water and heat circulation, which influence global temperature, climate evolution and sediment distribution. While deep-water gateways have been a major research focus by the community, very little attention has been drawn to shallower gateways located on the continental shelves, where such circulation also takes place. In this study, we investigate ...

In this study, we investigate key factors controlling the rift climax to post‐rift marine basin fill. We use two‐ and three‐dimensional seismic data in combination with sedimentological core descriptions from the Hammerfest Basin, south‐western Barents Sea to characterize and analyse the tectonostratigraphy and seismic facies of the Lower Cretaceous succession. Based on our biostratigraphic analyses, ...

Transform margins represent strike-slip type of plate boundaries that form during continental breakup and initial ocean opening. They are often characterized by margin-parallel highs with exposed pre- and syn-rift sequences. The Vøring Transform Margin, offshore mid-Norway, initiated in the earliest Eocene during the opening of the NE Atlantic. Here, 2D seismic reflection data reveal a transform ...

The aim of this study is to investigate the tectonic- and evolutionary differences between major structural elements of the Barents Sea South East (BSSE) during the uppermost Triassic to lower Cretaceous. The study area comprises the following structural elements: the Bjarmeland- and Finnmark platforms, the Nordkapp- and Tiddlybanken basins, the Signalhorn-, Haapet- and Veslekari domes and the ...