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dc.contributor.authorKoehl, Jean-Baptiste P.
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-24T07:29:23Z
dc.date.available2021-06-24T07:29:23Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-10
dc.description.abstractThe present study of field, petrological, exploration well, and seismic data describes backward-dipping duplexes comprised of phyllitic coal and bedding-parallel décollements and thrusts localized along lithological transitions in tectonically thickened Lower Devonian to lowermost Upper Devonian; uppermost Devonian–Mississippian; and uppermost Pennsylvanian–lowermost Permian sedimentary strata of the Wood Bay and/or Wijde Bay and/or Grey Hoek formations; of the Billefjorden Group; and of the Wordiekammen Formation, respectively. The study shows that these structures partially decoupled uppermost Devonian–Permian sedimentary rocks of the Billefjorden and Gipsdalen groups from Lower Devonian to lowermost Upper Devonian rocks of the Andrée Land Group and Mimerdalen Subgroup during early Cenozoic Eurekan deformation in central Spitsbergen. Eurekan strain decoupling along these structures explains differential deformation between Lower Devonian to lowermost Upper Devonian rocks of the Andrée Land Group and/or Mimerdalen Subgroup and overlying uppermost Devonian–Permian sedimentary strata of the Billefjorden and Gipsdalen groups in central–northern Spitsbergen without requiring an episode of (Ellesmerian) contraction in the Late Devonian. Potential formation mechanisms for bedding-parallel décollements and thrusts include shortcut faulting and/or formation as a roof décollement in a fault-bend hanging wall (or ramp) anticline, as an imbricate fan, as an antiformal thrust stack, and/or as fault-propagation folds over reactivated or overprinted basement-seated faults. The interpretation of seismic data in Reindalspasset indicates that Devonian sedimentary rocks of the Andrée Land Group and Mimerdalen Subgroup might be preserved east of the Billefjorden Fault Zone, suggesting that the Billefjorden Fault Zone did not accommodate reverse movement in the Late Devonian. Hence, the thrusting of Proterozoic basement rocks over Lower Devonian sedimentary rocks along the Balliolbreen Fault and fold structures within strata of the Andrée Land Group and Mimerdalen Subgroup in central Spitsbergen may be explained by a combination of down-east Carboniferous normal faulting with associated footwall rotation and exhumation, and subsequent top-west early Cenozoic Eurekan thrusting along the Billefjorden Fault Zone. Finally, the study shows that major east-dipping faults, like the Billefjorden Fault Zone, may consist of several discrete, unconnected (soft-linked and/or stepping) or, most probably, offset fault segments that were reactivated or overprinted to varying degrees during Eurekan deformation due to strain partitioning and/or decoupling along sub-orthogonal NNE-dipping reverse faults.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKoehl J-B. Early Cenozoic Eurekan strain partitioning and decoupling in central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Solid Earth (SE). 2021;12(5):1025-1049en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1912429
dc.identifier.doi10.5194/se-12-1025-2021
dc.identifier.issn1869-9510
dc.identifier.issn1869-9529
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/21542
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherEuropean Geosciences Unionen_US
dc.relation.journalSolid Earth (SE)
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/PETROSENTR/228107/Norway/Research Centre for Arctic Petroleum Exploration/ARCEx/en_US
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/FRINATEK/287865/Norway/Tectonic Stress Effects on Arctic Methane Seepage/SEAMSTRESS/en_US
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/SFF/223272/Norway/Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics/CEED/en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450en_US
dc.titleEarly Cenozoic Eurekan strain partitioning and decoupling in central Spitsbergen, Svalbarden_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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