Concerns about the impact of high levels of anthropogenic CO2 emissions in the atmosphere have led to the establishment of carbon emission limits of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been ...

Abstract In the Kragerø area in South Norway, tourmaline is commonly found in Sveconorwegian Nb-Y-F pegmatites. In general, magmatic tourmaline is rare in Nb-Y-F pegmatites. The local tourmaline enrichment in the Kragerø ...

Many subsurface geological storage sites for anthropogenic CO2 are situated in normal fault zones, where there is a risk of leakage as faults can act as fluid conduits. Optimal CO2 storage sites are generally located at ...

The proposed Aurora CO2 storage site is located in the Horda Platform, northern North Sea. Within the storage site, two storage aquifers and an overlying seal, which form part of the Lower Jurassic Dunlin Group, represent ...

A persistent problem in rockfall hazard assessments is the use of different definitions and methodologies within rockfall models used for hazard zone mapping. The primary purpose of this thesis is to study the parameter ...

Much debate is still happening on the subject of earthquakes in the lower crust. Pseudotachylytes are considered to be the only known evidence for such earthquakes in exhumed rocks (Steltenpohl et al., 2006). This thesis ...

Pseudotachylytes, also called “fossil earthquakes,” are the remains of solidified melt that formed along fault planes. If produced by brittle, seismic slip, they are important indicators of seismicity. If they originate ...

The Oslo Region provides the opportunity to study both the development of the late Silurian Caledonian fold-and-thrust belt and the formation of the Permo-Carboniferous continental Oslo Rift. The complex structural evolution ...

This thesis uses chemical and X-ray data to explore the composition and crystal-structure of nordite-group minerals from the two localities Igdlutalik Island and Taseq slope in Ilímaussaq Alkaline Complex in South Greenland. ...

Abstract The northern Horda Platform and Stord Basin is a part of the multi-phase North Sea rift system. Crustal extension of the area have taken place since the Devonian, in several pulses of rift activity. This study ...

The granitic pegmatites of Tørdal pegmatite field, which are situated in the Vestfold and Telemark county in South Norway, have gained lot of mineralogical and economic interest the last hundred years mainly because of ...

The early Holocene marine faunas of the Oslo area were studied in classical works by Brøgger (1901) and others, but there has been relatively little research in recent decades. Classical fossil localities near the marine ...

Abrasion and wearing resistance of a rock aggregate are essential factors for utilisa- tion in road construction purposes. These two properties are measured by two tests, Los Angeles (LA)- and Micro-Deval (MD)-test methods. ...

The Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Agardhfjellet and Rurikfjellet formations comprise a 450 m thick shale-dominated succession. This succession is present across central parts of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, and is the targeted ...

Smeaheia is a proposed site for long-term storage of CO2. The site is located on the Horda Platform off the western coast of Norway, situated between the Vette and Øygarden Faults. The burial and uplift history of a basin ...

The Hardangervidda – Ryfylke Nappe Complex is a dominant element in the southwestern segment of the Norwegian Caledonides. The section in Røldal includes a Proterozoic basement, with the following over-thrusted allochthonous ...

Intrusive rocks of the Green Foyaite Suite make up a substantial fraction of the southern part of the Pilanesberg Complex. The rocks range from fine-grained foliated foyaites (nepheline syenites) with clinopyroxenes ...

The purpose of the thesis is to establish a baseline discrete fracture network model for the area leading up from the back scarp to Flosteinbba above the unstable rock slope at Åknes. The model is intended to identify the ...

The Hardangervidda-Ryfylke Nappe Complex is the southernmost slice of the Scandinavian Caledonides, traditionally assigned as Middle Allochthon. Overlying these rocks are the Holmasjø Allochthon, the Dyrskard, Kvitenut and ...

In southern Norway and Sweden, the Sveconorwegian orogenic belt hosts over 5000 pegmatite bodies (1100-900 Ma) usually clustered in local pegmatite fields. The Spro pegmatite, the object of this study, occurs, however, as ...

Degrading permafrost is an increasingly important problem in high altitude alpine mountains and Arctic regions around the world because it exerts a primary control on rock falls and landslides in these areas. The present ...

Den tektomagmatiske aktiviteten i Oslofeltet startet i slutten av karbon og endte muligens så sent som i trias. Tidspunktet for da den tektomagmatiske aktiviteten startet, er godt begrenset, både ved biostratigrafi og ved ...

Mobility of sand by fluidization, so-called sand tectonics, can drive surface movements and thereby have a significant impact on depositional environments. Deformation related to sand mobilization is a typical understudied ...

The Mandawa Basin situated in south coastal Tanzania, has been a site for scientific research since the 1900s and a prospect for hydrocarbon exploration from the 1950s. The basin is located approximately 80 km west of the ...

The Tørdal pegmatite field, located in the county of Telemark in southern Norway, is known for its enrichment in Sc as well as other rare metals. During the last decade, the interest for Sc has increased, due to its important ...

This study presents source and reservoir characterization of Jurassic rocks by conducting compaction study, petrophysical analysis and rock physics diagnostics on data from 18 exploration wells in the Central North Sea, ...

The Forlandsundet Graben is an understudied Paleogene sedimentary basin, located between the islands Spitsbergen and Prins Karls Forland that belong to the Svalbard Archipelago. It represents a unique opportunity to study ...

The goal of this thesis is to estimate the amount of extension and displacement across faults using geometrical constraints. The mapped area is dominated by middle Ordovician to lower Silurian sediments folded during the ...

The Early to Middle Jurassic Stø Formation is the most commercially important sandstones reservoir in the Barents Sea. Stø Formation was deposited in a relatively shallow epicontinental sea in northern Pangea. One of the ...

This study presents the tectonic analysis of deformation structures in Slemmestad area. The study area lies in the southwest of Oslo. The analysis is conducted to better understand the fracture development and deformation ...

Målet med dette studiet var å finne den naturlige miljøtilstanden i dypassenget i Lurefjorden på Vestlandet, endringer i miljøstatus gjennom tid og akkumulasjonsraten til organisk karbon i Lurefjorden ble også kalkulert. ...

The Cambrian-Ordovician boundary interval within Alum Shale at Krekling, Norway, is for the first time investigated for biostratigraphy. Samples were taken from the Alum Shale levels, within the almost continuous succession ...

The geology of the Orkney Islands is dominated by well-studied Devonian sedimentary rocks deposited in the Orcadian basin. However, on the islands of Mainland Orkney and Graemsay there are small, relatively poorly studied ...

The present study investigated the impact of organic loading from fish farm waste on the benthic environment surrounding a fish farm, and the organic carbon accumulation in fjord sediments in a Western Norwegian fjord. One ...

The study comprises the Morrison Formation with the three members, Tidwell, Salt Wash, and Brushy Basin members, Upper Jurassic, Utah, USA. The Tidwell Member represents floodplain, lacustrine and fluvial environments. The ...

The Larvik plutonic complex is an intrusive suite within the Palaeozoic Oslo Rift, Norway, consisting of ten individual ring sections of monzonite (larvikite) and lardalite. The Bjønnes nepheline syenite is a relatively ...

Chemical analyzes and observations give new information on the formation of the Sc-silicate thortveitite in the Evje-Iveland pegmatite field. A correlation between a muscovite- or biotite dominated pegmatite and the ...

Geologically, the Barents Sea with deep sedimentary basins, highs and platforms is a complex mosaic and formed as a result of different geologic and tectonic processes with complex geological history. The history of the ...

In the last few years the tectonostratigraphic model of the Caledonides has been revised, to account for among others the melange unit discussed in this thesis. This unit, which in the past have been overlooked, consist ...

A study of columbite-tantalite paragenesis and garnet chemistry in the mixed NYF+LCT pegmatite field of Evje-Iveland, South Norway. A detailed study of the muscovite rare-element REE pegmatite at Solås were done to better ...

Investigation of the marginal marine Curtis Formation of the Middle to Upper Jurassic succession, composed of the Entrada Sandstone, the Curtis Formation and the Summerville Formation, in ascending order. As a whole, the ...

The Raudvatnet massive sulphide deposit is located in Hattfjelldal in Nordland, Northern Norway. Deposit investigations have been made by mining companies Boliden AB and Aspro AS in the 1960’s and 1980’s respectively. The ...

The tectonic evolution of the Late Mesoproterozoic Sveconorwegian Province has traditionally been considered to reflect continent-continent collision, which has been correlated with the Grenville Province in Canada. The ...

This thesis presents a 3D seismic analysis of fluid and gas induced hydrothermal vent complexes in a 310 km2 area at the Møre Basin, offshore Norway. The mid-Norwegian Møre Margin is regarded as a type example of a volcanic ...

The Barents Sea is the new target area for the oil industry, particularly the Triassic and Jurassic strata. Deeply buried sandstone reservoirs have proved to have good quality in the North Sea due to presence of chlorite ...

Abstract Reservoir characterization is one of the vital steps for hydrocarbon exploration and prospect evaluation. It improves the reservoir understanding and reduces risk during exploration. In this study a combined ...

In this study, tooth-bearing bones and vertebrae of Omphalosaurus from the Early Triassic of Spitsbergen have been examined to better understand the morphology, lifestyle and systematic affinities of this enigmatic marine ...

During the Paleogene, transcurrent motions between NE Greenland and Svalbard caused the formation of the Central Cenozoic Basin in Spitsbergen. The basin formation resulted in deposition of 7 sedimentary formations that ...