Middle–Late Paleozoic Duplex Rifting of the Barents Continental Margin and the Role Played in Formation of the East Barents Megabasin
- Authors: Shipilov E.V.1, Shkarubo S.I.2, Lobkovskiy L.I.3
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Affiliations:
- Polar Geophysical Institute, Kola Science Center
- Marine Arctic Geological Expedition
- Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
- Issue: Vol 482, No 2 (2018)
- Pages: 1288-1292
- Section: Geology
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1028-334X/article/view/194162
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X18100173
- ID: 194162
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Abstract
Based on analysis and interpretation of seismic and other geological-geophysical data, duplex rifting is identified in the Paleozoic evolution of the South Barents Basin. Its first, pre–Late Devonian, phase was manifested on the southeastern side zone that limited the Pechora Plate structures. After a certain pause, a second, pre–Late Carboniferous phase involved the western Barents Sea region, including the slope of the Central Barents Rise and the western South Barents Basin. Thus, Late Paleozoic riftogenic structures in the western and southeastern South Barents Basin formed at different times. All this caused an asymmetric structure profile and asynchronicity of evolution of the rift system sides. In the Mesozoic, under the effect of formation of the Novaya Zemlya fold-and-thrust structure, the asymmetry of the riftogenic trough became even more contrasting.
About the authors
E. V. Shipilov
Polar Geophysical Institute, Kola Science Center
Author for correspondence.
Email: shipilov@pgi.ru
Russian Federation, Murmansk, 183010
S. I. Shkarubo
Marine Arctic Geological Expedition
Email: shipilov@pgi.ru
Russian Federation, Murmansk, 183038
L. I. Lobkovskiy
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
Email: shipilov@pgi.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117218