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Thrust Devonian Sediments in the Kvamshesten area, Western Norway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Trygve Höisæter
Trygve Höisæter
Affiliation:
Geologisk Institutt, Universitet i Bergen, Norway
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Summary

It is demonstrated that the Kvamshesten area of continental Devonian rocks has been thrust over an older basement. The movements are correlated with the Svalbardian phase.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 108 , Issue 4 , July 1971 , pp. 287 - 292
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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