Geometry and facies of Tertiary clinothems, Spitsbergen |
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| Authors: | WILLIAM HELLAND-HANSEN |
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| Institution: | Norsk Hydro Research Center, N-5020 Bergen, Norway |
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| Abstract: | Sandstone clinothems from the Battfjellet Formation (Palaeogene) on Spitsbergen are locally exceptionally well preserved along depositional dip-parallel mountainsides. The clinothems are more than 1 km wide and more than 100 m thick. Superposition of several sandstone clinothems separated by mudstones reflects repeated shoreline progradation and transgression. Deposition took place partly on‘post-transgressional’ depositional shelves, and partly by contributing seaward-sloping wedges, or clinothems, to a ramp progradation. Shorelines dominated both by mouth bar and shoreface environments have been identified. The clinothems are organized into an overall progradational architecture with a geometry having features in common with progradational seismic facies. |
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