Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-p9bg8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T19:28:22.480Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Geology of the Land between Ekmanfjorden and Dicksonfjorden in Central Vestspitsbergen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. E. B. Bates  and
W. Schwarzacher
D. E. B. Bates
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, The Queen's University, Belfast.
W. Schwarzacher
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, The Queen's University, Belfast.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The peninsula between Ekmanfjorden and Dicksonfjorden has been mapped geologically. Devonian sandstones are overlain unconformably by a Permo-Carboniferous sequence of limestones (200 m.) and dolomites and gypsum (300 m.). This is followed by more than 150 metres of Permian cherts. The strata show a slight but consistent dip towards the SSE. A fault having the trend of this dip has been proved in Ekmanfjorden. Sills are intruded in the higher levels of the succession and it is suggested that the intrusions are contemporaneous with the faulting. By comparing the lithology the area can be correlated with the known sections of Billefjorden and Kongsfjorden.

Type
Articles
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 95 , Issue 3 , June 1958 , pp. 219 - 233
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Doeglass, D. J., 1956. An Exponential Function of Size Frequency Distributions of Sediments. Geol. en Mijnbouw., NW., SER., 18 Jaargang 1–29.Google Scholar
Føyn, S., and Heintz, A., 1943. The Downtonian and Devonian Vertebrates of Spitsbergen. The English-Norwegian-Swedish Expedition, 1939. Skr. Norges Svalbard- og Ishavs-unders. Oslo, Nr. 85.Google Scholar
Gee, E. R., Harland, W. B., and McWhae, J. R. H., 1953. Geology of Central Vestspitsbergen: Part I Review of the Geology of Spitsbergen, with Special Reference to Central Vestspitsbergen; Part II. Carboniferous to Lower Permian of Billefjorden. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., lxii, 299–356.Google Scholar
Holtedahl, O., 1912. Zur Kenntnis der Karbonablagerungen des Westlichen Spitzbergens. II. Allgemeine stratigraphische und tektonische Beobachtungen. Vid.-Sesk. Skrifter. I. Math.-Naturv. KL. Nr. 23, 1–91.Google Scholar
Isachsen, G., 1915. Travaux Topographiques de L'Expedition Isachsen 1909–1910. Expedition Isachsen, Resultats Scientifiques, ii, 1–61. Kristiania 1915.Google Scholar
McWhae, J. R. H., 1952. The Major Faultzone of Central Vestspitsbergen. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., cviii, 209–230.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nordenskiold, A. E., 1876. Sketch of the Geology of Icesound and Bell-sound, Spitsbergen. Geol. Mag. (II), III, 63–75.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Norsk Polarinstitutt. Chart 503, Svalbard, fra Bellsund til Forlandstrevet med Isfjorden. Oslo 1932.Google Scholar
Orvin, A. K., 1934. Geology of the Kings Bay Region, Spitsbergen, with special reference to the Coal Deposits. Skr. Norges Svalbard- og Ishavs-unders., lvii, 1–195.Google Scholar
Orvin, A. K., 1940. Outline of the Geological History of Spitsbergen. Skr. Norges Svalbard- og Ishavs-unders., lxxviii, 1–57.Google Scholar
Tyrrell, G. W., and Sandford, K. S., 1933. Geology and Petrology of the Dolerites of Spitsbergen. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., liii, 284–321.Google Scholar