I dette hovedfagsarbeidet gir en stratigrafisk oversikt og faciestolkning av Melke- og Spekkformasjonen fra brønn 6507/7-5, basert på foraminiferanalyser kombinert med data fra organisk geokjemi, for å belyse avsetningsmiljøet ...

Store deler av Svalbard var i tidsrommet sen trias mellom jura en grunn shelf med kondensert sedimentasjon. Knorringfjellformasjonen representerer avsetningene fra denne perioden i sentrale deler av Spitsbergen. Vekslende ...

Abstract This thesis is written as a part of the Cand. Scient. degree at the Institute for Geosciences at the University of Oslo. Traditionally, age determinations of late Cretaceous chalks in the Central Graben in the ...

The Early Cretaceous, Barremian – Aptian Helvetiafjellet Formation is a well exposed paralic succession deposited at ramp-type shelf of the Borealic sea in the Svalbard region. The Ullaberget section in the Van Keulenfjorden ...

Fronten av fire tidevannsbreer utgjør kalvingsbukta innerst i Van Keulenfjorden, en 43 km lang nordvest-sydøst orientert fjord sydvest på Spitsbergen. Zawadskibreen, Nathorstbreen, Liestølbreen og Doktorbreen går sammen ...

The 40 km diameter Mjølnir Crater was formed 142 ± 2.6 Ma (Volgian-Ryazanian boundary) by the impact of a 1.6 km diameter asteroid into the 350-400 m deep paleo-Barents Sea. The structure is buried and well preserved in ...

Since its development in 1974 the Q-system for classifying rock masses has readily been used for dimensioning support measures in underground excavations in Norway and internationally. The Q-system, as it was originally ...

The Caledonian Orogen in East Greenland comprises an autochthonous basement complex overlain by a Late Proterozoic to Early Proterozoic cover sequence with a regionally extensive thrust sheet complex on top. The thrust ...

A re-description and a re-classification is made for the plesiosaur specimen PMO A 27745 previously identified in 1962 as Tricleidus svalbardensis Persson. In all probability the fossil is from the Slottsmøya Member of ...