PERMIAN (ARTINSKIAN-KAZANIAN) COOL-WATER CARBONATES IN NORTH GREENLAND, SVALBARD AND THE WESTERN BARENTS SEA

1997 ◽  
pp. 349-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
LARS STEMMERIK
Keyword(s):  
Barents Sea ◽  
Cool Water ◽  
North Greenland

Wandel Sea Basin, eastern North Greenland

1998 ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Stemmerik ◽  
Finn Dalhoff ◽  
Birgitte D. Larsen ◽  
Jens Lyck ◽  
Anders Mathiesen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Barents Sea ◽  
Fault System ◽  
Hydrocarbon Potential ◽  
Fold Belt ◽  
Related Field ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
Late Mesozoic ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Late Palaeozoic ◽  
North Greenland

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Stemmerik, L., Dalhoff, F., Larsen, B. D., Lyck, J., Mathiesen, A., & Nilsson, I. (1998). Wandel Sea Basin, eastern North Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 180, 55-62. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v180.5086 _______________ The Wandel Sea Basin in eastern North Greenland is the northernmost of a series of fault-bounded Late Palaeozoic – Early Tertiary basins exposed along the eastern and northern margin of Greenland (Fig. 1). The basin and the surrounding shelf areas are located in a geologically complex region at the junction between the N–S trending Caledonian fold belt in East Greenland and the E–W trending Ellesmerian fold belt in North Greenland, and along the zone of later, Tertiary, continental break-up. The Wandel Sea Basin started to develop during the Carboniferous as a result of extension and rifting between Greenland and Norway, and Greenland and Spitsbergen (Håkansson & Stemmerik 1989), and was an area of accumulation during the Early Carboniferous – Early Tertiary period. Two main epochs of basin evolution have been recognised during previous studies of the basin fill: an early (late Palaeozoic – early Triassic) epoch characterised by a fairly simple system of grabens and half-grabens, and a late (Mesozoic) epoch dominated by strike-slip movements (Håkansson & Stemmerik 1989). The Mesozoic epoch only influenced the northern part of the basin, north of the Trolle Land fault zone (Fig. 1). Thus the northern and southern parts of the basin have very different structural and depositional histories, and accordingly different thermal histories and hydrocarbon potential. This paper summarises the results of a project supported by Energy Research Program (EFP-94), the purpose of which was to model the Wandel Sea Basin with special emphasis on hydrocarbon potential and late uplift history, and to provide biostratigraphic and sedimentological data that could improve correlation with Svalbard and the Barents Sea. It is mainly based on material collected during field work in Holm Land and Amdrup Land in the south-eastern part of the Wandel Sea Basin during 1993–1995 with additional data from eastern Peary Land (Stemmerik et al. 1996). Petroleum related field studies have concentrated on detailed sedimentological and biostratigraphic studies of the Carboniferous–Permian Sortebakker, Kap Jungersen, Foldedal and Kim Fjelde Formations in Holm Land and Amdrup Land (Fig. 2; Døssing 1995; Stemmerik 1996; Stemmerik et al. 1997). They were supplemented by a structural study of northern Amdrup Land in order to improve the understanding of the eastward extension of the Trolle Land fault system and possibly predict its influence in the shelf areas (Stemmerik et al. 1995a; Larsen 1996). Furthermore, samples for thermal maturity analysis and biostratigraphy were collected from the Mesozoic of Kap Rigsdagen and the Tertiary of Prinsesse Thyra Ø (Fig. 1).

The Arctic Caledonides and earlier Oceans

1972 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. Harland ◽  
R. A. Gayer
Keyword(s):  
Barents Sea ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Lomonosov Ridge ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The West ◽  
East Greenland ◽  
The North ◽  
Scandinavian Caledonides ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
North Greenland

SummaryConsideration of the arctic configuration of the Caledonides leads to a distinction between eastern and western geosynclinal belts. The western belt, comprising the East Greenland, East Svalbard and southern Barents Sea Caledonides is postulated to continue northwards into the Lomonosov Ridge, whilst the western Spitsbergen Caledonides are thought to have originated as part of the North Greenland geosyncline which is also thought to continue northwards to form the western part of the Lomonosov Ridge. The eastern Caledonian geosynclinal belt comprising the Scandinavian Caledonides appears to swing eastwards to link with the Timan Chain and possibly the Urals.The already postulated (‘Proto-Atlantic’) ocean concept is reviewed in the light of the Arctic Caledonides and named Iapetus. Faunal provincialism suggests that the ocean was in existence up to early Ordovician but had substantially closed by mid Ordovician times. Possible relics of the suture marking the closure of this ocean suggest that it lay to the west of the Arctic Scandinavian Caledonides trending NE to latitude 70° N and thence veered eastwards separating the southern Barents Sea Caledonides from those of Arctic Scandinavia, possibly connecting with the northern Uralian ocean. A previous branch of the ocean may have separated East Svalbard and East Greenland as an ocean-like trough. A further (pre-Arctic) ocean may have existed to the north of the North Greenland–Lomonosov Ridge geosynclines. This is named Pelagus.The closure of these oceanic areas and the deformation of the bordering geosynclines delineates three principal continental plates, namely, Baltic, Greenland and Barents Plates. Their relative dominantly E–W motion up to Silurian times produced compression between the Greenland and both the Baltic and Barents plates but dextral transpression and transcurrence between the latter plates. In Late Silurian to Devonian times an increasing northward component controlled late Caledonian transpression and sinistral transcurrence between the Greenland plate and the combined Baltic and Barents plates.

Stratigraphy and palynology of the Lower Carboniferous Sortebakker Formation, Wandel Sea Basin, eastern North Greenland

2000 ◽  
pp. 51-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finn Dalhoff ◽  
Jorunn Os Vigran ◽  
Lars Stemmerik
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Barents Sea ◽  
Early Carboniferous ◽  
Depositional Facies ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
East Greenland ◽  
Original Series ◽  
The Barents Sea ◽  
Palynological Assemblages ◽  
North Greenland

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Dalhoff, F., Os Vigran, J., & Stemmerik, L. (2000). Stratigraphy and palynology of the Lower Carboniferous Sortebakker Formation, Wandel Sea Basin, eastern North Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 187, 51-63. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v187.5194 _______________ Two palynological assemblages of Early Carboniferous age have been recorded from the upper parts of the non-marine, fluvial-dominated Sortebakker Formation in the Wandel Sea Basin. The stratigraphically lower assemblage includes poorly preserved Cingulizonates spp., Densosporites spp., Lycospora spp. and Schulzospora spp. whereas the upper assemblage contains a more diversified microflora including the stratigraphically important Tripartites distinctus, Potoniespores delicatus and Savitrisporites spp. The microflora enables correlation and dating of the succession to the late Viséan Perotrilites tessellatus – Schulzospora campyloptera (TC) and Raistrickia nigra – Triquitrites marginatus (NM) miospore Biozones of western Europe. The depositional facies correspond to those seen in time equivalent deposits from East Greenland, Svalbard, Bjørnøya and the Barents Sea.

scholarly journals Fusulinid zonation of the Upper Carboniferous Kap Jungersen and Foldedal Formations, southern Amdrup Land, eastern North Greenland

2001 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 31-77
Author(s):  
V.I. Davydov ◽  
I. Nilsson ◽  
L. Stemmerik
Keyword(s):  
Barents Sea ◽  
Russian Platform ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
Upper Carboniferous ◽  
The Barents Sea ◽  
First Time ◽  
North Greenland

New fusulinid data from the Kap Jungersen and Foldedal Formations in southern Amdrup Land, eastern North Greenland allow the establishment of a detailed fusulinid-based zonation of the Upper Carboniferous succession in the Wandel Sea Basin. The fusulinid fauna is quite similar to that of the Russian Platform, the Ural Mountains, Spitsbergen, Bjørnøya, and the offshore areas of the Barents Sea, and therefore the Greenland strata are confidently correlated to the these regions. The Kap Jungersen Formation and the lower part of the Foldedal Formation are dated as late early Moscovian to latest Moscovian in age. The locally more than 450 m thick Moscovian part of the succession comprises four fusulinid zones: the Profusulinella prisca – Neostaffella subquadrata Zone and the Citrinoides paraozawai Zone of early Moscovian age, and the Fusulinella bocki – Pseduofusulinella pulchra Zone and the Protriticites ovatus Zone of late Moscovian age. Lower and middle Kasimovian deposits, characterized by two fusulinid assemblages of the Obsoletes obsoletus – Protriticites pseudomontiparus Zone and the Montiparus paramontiparus Zone, are recognised for the first time in Amdrup Land. The thin lower Gzelian succession is represented by two fusulinid assemblages that definine the Rugosofusulina flexuosa Zone and the Daixina crispa – Rauserites stuckenbergi Zone. The youngest Carboniferous strata, belonging to the Orenburgian part of the Gzelian are characterised by an assemblage of the Schellwienia ulukensis Zone.

scholarly journals Stratigraphy and depositional evolution of the Upper Palaeozoic sedimentary succession in eastern Peary Land, North Greenland

1996 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 45-71
Author(s):  
L Stemmerik ◽  
E Håkansson ◽  
L Madsen ◽  
I Nilsson ◽  
S Piasecki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Upper Permian ◽  
Upper Carboniferous ◽  
Cool Water ◽  
Depositional Evolution ◽  
Sedimentary Succession ◽  
North Greenland

The Upper Palaeozoic Foldedal and Kim Fjelde formations in eastern Peary Land are redefined on the basis of new biostratigraphic data, including fusulinids, conodonts, palynomorps and small foraminifera. The Foldedal Formation in its new definition includes all late Moscovian to Gzelian deposits in the region. It is separated by a major hiatus from the redefined Kim Fjelde Formation which includes mid-Permian (late Artinskian - Kungurian) carbonates and chert deposits. The Upper Carboniferous succession is dominated by cyclically interbedded siliciclastics and carbonates with minor tabular build-ups. The mid and Upper Permian succession consists of cool-water carbonates, spiculitic chert and shales.

scholarly journals Radiocaesium (137Cs) in marine mammals from Svalbard, the Barents Sea and the North Greenland Sea

2006 ◽  
Vol 363 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Andersen ◽  
Justin P. Gwynn ◽  
Mark Dowdall ◽  
Kit M. Kovacs ◽  
Christian Lydersen
Keyword(s):  
Marine Mammals ◽  
Barents Sea ◽  
Greenland Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
The Barents Sea ◽  
North Greenland
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