Title: | The Jan Mayen microcontinent and Iceland Plateau: Tectono-magmatic evolution and rift propagation |
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Advisor: | Bryndís Brandsdóttir |
Date: | 2020-05-15 |
Language: | English |
Scope: | 1-336 |
University/Institute: | Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland |
School: | Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI) |
Department: | Jarðvísindadeild (HÍ) Faculty of Earth Sciences (UI) |
ISBN: | 978-9935-9412-8-2 |
Subject: | Dual-breakup igneous complex; Kinematic model; Iceland plateau rift; Jan Mayen microcontinent; SDRs; Volcanic seismic-stratigraphy; Jarðskorpuhreyfingar; Landrek; Jarðlög; Jarðeðlisfræði; Doktorsritgerðir |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1826 |
Citation:Anett Blischke, 2020, The Jan Mayen microcontinent and Iceland Plateau: Tectono-magmatic evolution and rift propagation, PhD dissertation, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland.
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Description:Understanding the geological evolution of an area of interest is the basis for any exploration assessment and decision making for the Icelandic government tied to their offshore licensing activity. The Jan Mayen microcontinent study was initially focused on the tectonic and volcanic development of the central part of the microcontinent – the Lyngvi ridge and the Jan Mayen southern ridge complex areas. To properly understand their formation, a comprehensive study of the Jan Mayen microcontinent and the Iceland Plateau rift region became necessary, in order to place the local region within the complex setting of the Northeast Atlantic. Consequently, a research project was proposed, which formed the basis for this doctoral work. The resulting project presents an in depth understanding of the microcontinent´s structural and magmatic foundation, and the establishment of a tectono- and volcano-stratigraphic framework that enables a clear link to the area´s complex geodynamic development. These objectives were achieved through detailed geological and geophysical mapping of the Jan Mayen microcontinent and the Iceland Plateau rift regions, including seismic-stratigraphic analysis of the sedimentary and igneous succession and their correlation to the study area´s conjugate margins. Kinematic modelling of the northeast Atlantic region has enabled the Cenozoic evolution of the Jan Mayen microcontinent and the Iceland Plateau rift region to be reconstructed and placed within the context of continental breakup, subsequent plate reorganization, and interlinkage of the Northeast Atlantic rift system to the Iceland mantle anomaly.
This research project was established and its dissertation was written in collaboration between the Institute of Earth Sciences (IES) of the University of Iceland, the Iceland GeoSurvey (ÍSOR), the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) at the University of Oslo, the British Geological Survey (BGS) and successively the University of Adelaide. The start of the project ran concurrent with the NAGTEC project, which was a collaboration between the NW European geological surveys, including ÍSOR, and oil companies that produced a tectonostratigraphic atlas of the Northeast Atlantic as well as a comprehensive geological and geophysical database. During that work, the primary database for the project was established by the candidate, who played a key role to assemble and compile data packages for several working groups (WP1: Tectonostratigraphy; WP3: Crustal Structure; WP4: History of Igneous Provinces; or WP5: Data) within the NAGTEC project that concerned matters of the Jan Mayen microcontinent, the Iceland Plateau rift areas, and their links into the conjugate margins. Parallel to the NAGTEC and collaboration projects, was the candidate managing and initiating the first digital offshore database of for Icelandic waters, with the focus on the JMMC-IPR region, a database that is now being steadily expanded for the Icelandic shelf area by a small Icelandic offshore research community. Collaboration projects were pursued at the same time, as it was imminent and necessary to increase data coverage and understanding of the JMMC-IPR area´s regional ties to its conjugate margins and oceanic domains. These concerned a high-resolution magnetic survey and analysis of the Ægir ridge by the Norwegian Geological Survey (NGU), and a detailed mapping project of the Jameson Land basin in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and are both specifically acknowledged here. Both, enabling a good data-based comparison the study area and its oceanic domains, and provided a better understanding of the central East Greenland onshore and shelf margin areas.
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Rights:Access rights through author (anb24@hi.is).
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