Western Barents Shelf
Comprising predominantly thick sedimentary basins, windows into the geological evolution of the western Barents Shelf are spectacularly exposed on the Svalbard archipelago in the north of the region, and are contained in materials recovered from exploration boreholes in the south of the region. How these basins formed and filled is an ongoing area of research that is key for understanding palaeogeography during the formation and break-up of supercontinent Pangea, the location of reservoirs for hydrocarbon reserves and suitable sites for the underground storage of carbon dioxide.
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Active Research Projects
Most Recent Reports
- A review of the crystalline basement of the Barents Shelf and adjacent areas
- Chronostratigraphic constraints for Triassic sand dispersal on the western Barents Shelf
- Late Carboniferous to Early Permian reservoir development on the Stappen High: New insight from field and photogrammetric surveys of Bjørnøya
- Geological history of Bjørnøya through virtual outcrop models
- A sediment provenance study from the Salina well (7220/10-1)