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 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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Permian Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME) is the most crucial extinction in earth’s history. The recovery of terrestrial and marine habitats and ecosystems are scarcely explored due to the minute material excavated from ...

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 ...

The present study is done to analyse the growth basin development of Jurassic-Cretaceous age in the Goliat field. There are three fault trends in Goliat area with TFFC having the longest history of activity and exhibits a ...

Lower Jurassic Cook Formation is an important hydrocarbon reservoir in northern North Sea due to its anomalously high porosity at depths around 3000 meters. This study presents information about the depositional environment, ...

The Scandinavian Caledonides have been long studied, yet their ever unfolding complexity renders them far from being fully understood. It has been recognized that the Caledonian Allochthons have neither a linear nor ...

Quartz cementation and precipitation of clays are two of the most porosity and permeability reducing processes in the Brent Group sediments. Dissolved feldspar and authigenic kaolinite occur at shallow depths as a function ...

Recently, population and development approach closer to mountainous regions and other landslide prone areas. Since landslides produce loss of life and damaging to property, monitoring and analysing the runout behaviour of ...

Abstract Late Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from a single carbonate concretion in the uppermost Lusitaniadalen Member ( Fish Niveau , Vikinghøgda Formation) at Stensiöfjellet, Spitsbergen, are studied and compared ...

Deeply buried reservoirs represent interesting plays on the Norwegian Continental Shelf due to the efficiency of chlorite coatings as a porosity-preserving mechanism. This study investigates factors controlling reservoir ...

Representatives of the avian taxon Zygodactylidae are among the best known small arboreal birds from the early Palaeogene. Still, however, the anatomy of zygodactylids is not fully understood. It is therefore important ...

The study area is located in the Bjørnøya basin, the southwestern Barents Sea. It is surrounded by the Loppa High and Sub-platform to the east and southeast, the Veslemøy high to the west and to the north by the Bjørnøyrenna ...

The Caledonian mélange unit of South Norway is a unit that has largely been overlooked in previously studies of the Caledonides. The mélange consists of Alpine type metaperidotite bodies now found as serpentinites, talc ...

Different horizons within an exposed deformed sedimentary sequence can, along with the fracture pattern, potentially be utilized by reducing fluids, in turn altering the mineralogical composition of the unit. Potentially ...