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Evidence for extensive post-Caledonian karst development in southwestern Spitsbergen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

M. Bjørnerud
M. Bjørnerud
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Geology Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056–1618, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Proterozoic limestones at several localities in southwestern Spitsbergen contain karst-related features (layered clastic infillings, collapse breccias, deeply weathered depressions) which overprint the Caledonian deformational fabric in the rocks. These features apparently developedbetween middle Devonian and mid-Carboniferous time when the Precambrian basement complex stood high above sea level. Recognition of these karst features may shed light on depositional and tectonic events in post-Caledonian Spitsbergen.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 129 , Issue 4 , July 1992 , pp. 465 - 469
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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