Open AccessCarboniferous and Permian history of the Wandel Sea Basin, North Greenland
Author(s) -
Lars Stemmerik,
Eckart Håkansson
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2936
pISSN - 0105-3507
DOI - 10.34194/bullggu.v160.6715
Subject(s) - carboniferous , geology , permian , paleontology , siliciclastic , paleozoic , structural basin , ecological succession , viséan , rift , sedimentary depositional environment , ecology , biology
Upper Palaeozoic sediments in North Greenland were deposited in basins formed as the result of rifting between Norway, Greenland and Svalbard. The succession comprises Upper Carboniferous fluviatile sediments, Upper Carboniferous mixed shallow marine siliciclastic sediments and carbonates, Lower Permian shallow water carbonates, and Upper Permian carbonates, cherts and shales. Major depositionaJ sequences encompass the following intervals: early Moscovian, mid Moscovian - Gzelian, Asselian-Kungurian, and Ufimian-Kazanian.