Løvehovden fault and Billefjorden rift basin segmentation and development, Spitsbergen, Norway

Geological Magazine

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 154-170

  Maher Jr , H D ^a   Braathen, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Billefjorden; Carboniferous; fault propagation; Minkinfjellet; rift; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

LITHOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BILLEFJORDEN; CARBONIFEROUS; FAULT PROPAGATION; MINKINFJELLET; RIFT; SVALBARD;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BRECCIA; CARBONIFEROUS; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; FAULT PROPAGATION; GRABEN; MONOCLINE; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SHEAR ZONE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 79951774288     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756810000567     Document Type: Article

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