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Ophiolite from
Lyngen, Troms og Finnmark, Norway


Locality type:Municipality
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Type:Ophiolite
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Validity:Believed Valid
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Ophiolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lyngen, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1093209
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1093209:0
GUID (UUID V4):79ff2112-e29f-4cb9-a22e-e9588230b0b6
References
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in the Scandinavian Caledonides of the Ofoten – Troms area – terrane characterization and correlation...University of Oslo, PO Box 1047, Blindern, O316 Oslo, Norway 2 GEOTOP, Universite du Québec á Montréal,...Canada H3C 3P8 3 Geological Survey of Norway, 7491 Trondheim, Norway 4 Department of Geology, 210 Petrie...the Scandinavian Caledonides in the Troms– Ofoten region of Norway to explore possible correlations and...area. Tonalites in the structurally underlying Lyngen and Gratangseidet ophiolitic complexes, both forming
Report (chapter)
H. Furnes SUMMARY: Dismembered and fragmented ophiolite assemblages constitute important elements of the...data, permit a classification of many of the ophiolite complexes into two fundamental groups. Group I...higher levels in the tectonostratigraphy, the ophiolite remnants vary widely in character depending on...convenient line of separation between the two. Group I ophiolite complexes appear to be derivatives of either a...time. Group II fragmented ophiolites in central Norway are of late Arenig to Llanvirn and possibly Llandeilo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tectonothermal evolution of exotic Caledonian nappes in Troms, Norway: Evidence from 4°Ar/39Ar mineral ages R.D. Dallmeyer"...University of Oslo, PB 1047 Blinden, N-0316 Oslo, Norway (Received October 21, 1991~revised and accepted...tectonothermal evolution of exotic Caledonian nappes in Troms, Norway: Evidence from 4°Ar/39Ar mineral ages. Lithos...northern Troms County, Norway. Within the Nordmannvik Nappe and upper tectonic levels of the Lyngen Nappe...the Troms Caledonides (except for the possible exception of eclogite-bearing horizons in the Troms~ Nappe
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Heidi Moen-Eikeland Æ Rolf Birger Pedersen The Lyngen Gabbro: the lower crust of an Ordovician Incipient...origin of the Lyngen Gabbro of the Ordovician Lyngen Magmatic Complex in Troms, Northern Norway. The two magmatic...magmatic suites of the Lyngen Gabbro strike parallel NNESSW, and have distinct magmatic signatures. We...this large gabbrocomplex. The Western suite of the Lyngen Gabbro precipitated from magma that may have been...Statoil, 4035 Stavanger, Norway H. Moen-Eikeland Nipefjellet 83, 5300 Kleppestø, Norway R. B. Pedersen Department
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N-0316 Oslo, Norway 2 CEED, University of Oslo, Postbox 1048 Blindern, N-0316, Oslo, Norway 3 Geological...Geological Survey of Norway, Postboks 6315 Sluppen, 7491 Trondheim, Norway *Corresponding author (e-mail: fernando...Library on May 30, 2014 F. CORFU ET AL. of the Finnmark Caledonides, showing that the previously held...illustrated with several examples. First, in southern Norway we now appreciate that both the Jotun and Lindås...fashion. Second, the Kalak nappe complex of northern Norway has traditionally been assigned to the Middle Allochthon
Report (chapter)
N-0316 Oslo, Norway 2 Department of Geology, University of Tromsø, N-9137 Tromsø, Norway *Corresponding...island-arcs, arcrelated basins and spreading ridges (ophiolite fragments) were emplaced as thrust sheets/nappes...Group along the Caledonian thrust front in Finnmark and Troms (Fig. 2). We consider this to be particularly...Geological setting The Caledonian Orogen in Arctic Norway is characterized by a variety of nappes thrust...al. 2008). In northern Norway, Archaean crust is present in eastern Finnmark and the Lofoten –Vesterålen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tromsø, Norway †Institute of Geology, University of Bergen, Allegt. 41, 5007 Bergen, Norway (Received...Scandinavian Caledonides of the Tromsø area in northern Norway (Figs 1, 2). It consists of numerous ‡ Author for...for the dykes. 2. Regional geological setting The Troms segment of the Scandinavian Caledonides (Fig. 1)...tectonic map showing the tectonostratigraphy of the Troms region. Modified from Krogh et al. (1990) and Zwaan...in Troms is subdivided into different nappe complexes, of which the most important are the Lyngen nappe
Report (chapter)
Halti HandÜl Jotunheimen Karmøy Kalak Nappe Complex Lyngen Leka Magerøy Molde Otta Raudfjellet Stavanger Seiland...Nappe Complex in northernmost and southernmost Norway, as proposed, for example, in Gee et al. (2015)...the windows in the west along the border zone to Norway and is a major component in the hinterland thrust...Western Gneiss Region (Young 2017) of southwestern Norway, it has been possible to estimate the minimum distance...length of the orogen into northern and southern Norway. All thrust sheets are of higher metamorphic grade
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A U-Pb zircon age for the Rüna intrusion, N. Norway: New evidence of basic magmatism in the Scandinavian...: A U-Pb zircon age for the Rüna intrusion, N. Norway: New evidence of basic magrnatism in the Scandinavian...similar layered mafic intrusions and ophiolites in Norway, provide evidence for a distinct and possibly short-lived...undersøkelse, Postboks 3006 Lade, N-7002 Trondheim, Norway; Sarah-Jaw Barnes, Sciences de la Terre, Universite...the Narvik Nappe Complex in the Caledonides of N. Norway, roughly 20 km SW of Narvik (Figs. l, 2). Atten­
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogisk-Geologisk Museum, Sarsgate 1, N-Oslo 5, Norway. *Present address: Department of Geology, University...may be the ultramafic portions of dismembered ophiolite sequences (Penrose Conference 1972). We are considering...D' in Fig. 1). Most of these are found in north Norway, especially east of Seiland, although some occur...(e.g. Seiland - Bennet 1974, Leka Prestvik 1972, Lyngen - Randall 1971, Munday 1974). (c) The ultramafic...'peridotites and serpentinites' on the geologic map of Norway (Holtedahl & Dons 1960). Brief and usually inadequate
Report (chapter)
Finnmarkian orogeny involved obduction of major ophiolite complexes onto the continental margin of Baltica...Finnmarkian orogeny is in the northernmost part of Norway where the following sequence of events has been...dykes Cambrian sea-floor spreading occurred. In W Norway ensimatic island-arc volcanics of the Gutung Farm...Kalak Ln - Nv - Su - He - Tk - Le - Lyngen Narvik Sulitjelma Helgeland Terr6k Leka Fn -...been identified (Sturt et al. 1978). In the W Finnmark region the rocks of the Seiland Igneous Province
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Complex in the Scandinavian Caledonides, northern Norway: evidence for weakening of lower continental crust...Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø 9037, Norway des Sciences de la Terre (ISTO), UniversitÊ...Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal 6851, Norway 4 Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim...Trondheim 7491, Norway 5 IPSG, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43, Prague 2, Czech...Evolution and Dynamics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 2 Institut Correspondence: Carly Faber (carlyfaber1@gmail
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University of Oslo, Box 1047 Blindern 0316 Oslo, Norway E-mail: fernando.corfu@geologi.uio.no Tel.: +47-22-856680...of Geology, University of Tromsø, 9037, Tromsø, Norway Editorial responsibility: W. Schreyer Introduction...Tromsø Nappe in the Uppermost Allochthon of northern Norway (Figs. 1, 2). As summarized in greater detail below...1985; Krogh et al. 1990; Zwaan et al. 1998). In the Troms region, the Tromsø Nappe overlies a stack of tectonic...are overlain by the Lyngen Nappe Complex (Andresen and Steltenpohl 1994). The Lyngen Nappe Complex includes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Uppermost Allochthon (UmA) mostly in northern Norway. The Neoproterozoic and Cambrian history of this...ĂĄ P.M. Ihlen Geological Survey of Norway, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway e-mail: tor.grenne@ngu.no F.M. Vokes...Engineering, HĂšgskoleringen 6, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway host to two characteristic types of stratabound-stratiform...southwestern Norway, the western Trondheim Region, the western Grong District, Leka and Lyngen. MaÂŽc or bimodal...in the western Grong District and in southwest Norway. Orthomagmatic ores occur in the form of PGE mineralisation
Report (issue)
Quaternary Geology of Norway Quaternary geology of norway Geological Survey of Norway Special Publication...Publication, 13 Geological Survey of Norway Special Publication, 13 9 788273 851536 Lars Olsen, Ola Fredin... Fredin & Olesen (eds.) Geological Survey of Norway Special Publication, 13 The NGU Special Publication...geologiske undersøkelse (Geological Survey of Norway) NO–7491 Norway All Rights reserved ISSN: 0801–5961 ISBN:...landforms and Quaternary landscape development in Norway Ola Fredin, Bjørn Bergstrøm, Raymond Eilertsen
Report (chapter)
metatonalite from the Kjosen Unit of the Lyngen Magmatic Complex, northern Norway GRAHAME J.H. OLlV ER & THOMAS...metatonalite from the Kjosen Unit of the Lyngen Magmatic Complex, northern Norway. Nor. geo/. unders. Bull. 428...from within metagabbro of the Kjosen Unit of the Lyngen Magmatic Complex give a concordant U-Pb age of...magmatic development of the Karmoy Ophiolite Complex of Southwest Norway . Grahame J.H .Oliver, Geology Department...Introduction The Lyngen Gabbro Complex of Randall (1971 ) has been renamed the Lyngen Magmatic Complex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1998) 243-268 Contrasting tonalite genesis in the Lyngen magmatic complex, north Norwegian Caledonides Rune...Trams@,Norway b Geologisk Institutt, Universitetet i Bergen, All&aten 41, 5007 Bergen, Norway Received4...November 1997 Abstract The Lyngen gabbro (LG), defining the major part of the Lyngen magmatic complex, is characterised...rights reserved PII SOO24-4937(97)00045-S The Lyngen magmatic complex (LMC) is located within the Scandinavian...Scandinavian Caledonides of northern Norway (Fig. 11, and represents one of the many 244 R.S. Selbekk
Journal (volume)
Paleozoic, HaIti, Enontekio, Lapland, Finland, Norway. Pekka Sipila University of Turku Department of...Seve Nappe of the Upper Allochthon. In northern Norway, mafic dykes belonging to this early magmatism...visited HaIti during his general survey of northern Norway. Stjernvall (1892) published an account of the...scheme developed in adjacent parts of northern Norway. Further publica- tions include those concerned...explanatory notes, covering contiguous areas in Norway is also available (Fareth et al., 1977), as is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nilsson Geological Survey of Norway, Leiv Eirikssons vei 39, 7491 Trondheim, Norway e-mail: victor.melezhik@ngu...is situated in the county of Nordland, northern Norway (Fig. 1a). The region is characterised by an unusually...many of the important types of mineral deposits in Norway (Bugge 1978). However, genetic models of the CuÂąPbÂąZn...from it by a thin slice of a `maÂŽc complex' (ophiolite fragments of Boyd 1983) consisting of polymict...age of the Lyngen Ophiolite Complex (Oliver and Krogh 1995) as the correlative to the ophiolite fragment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geology, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway Abstract Eclogites within the Tromsø Nappe of...eclogite body within the Tromsø Nappe, northern Norway. The eclogite body is located on the 1:50,000 topographic...Silurian metasediments deposited directly on the Lyngen Magmatic Complex (both part of the Upper Allochthon)...yields 469 ¹ 5 Ma (Oliver and Krogh, 1995). The Lyngen Magmatic Complex represents oceanic fragments obducted...the ages of the Western Gneiss Region of southern Norway (Krogh et al., 1974; Carswell et al., 2003), and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phengite-bearing eclogite of the Tromsø Nappe, Norway M . J A N Á K , 1 E . J . K . R A V N A 2 A N...of Geology, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway ABSTRACT Kyanite- and phengite-bearing eclogites...Vaddas, Kåfjord and Nordmannvik Nappes and the Lyngen Nappe Complex. The latter complex includes the...Publishing Ltd UHP ECLOGITE FROM THE TROMSØ NAPPE, NORWAY 3 Fig. 1. Tectonic map of the Scandinavian Caledonides...Publishing Ltd UHP ECLOGITE FROM THE TROMSØ NAPPE, NORWAY 5 (a) Fig. 3. Geological map of Tromsdalstind
Report (chapter)
sedimentation gaps, preceded by deformation and ophiolite obduction and/or uplift, were accompanied by tectonic...deformation by folding and thrusting, including ophiolite obduction and nappe formation, igneous activity...columns from Greenland (A and B), Svalbard (C), and Norway (D-G) whose sediments and volcanic rocks represent...Central 72 ° - (COMPOSITE) Greenland B East Finnmark Finnmark N y Friesland Trough 74°N A West Svalbard... Northeast EastGreenland C D 187 ICentral Norway E S. N o r w a y F G %%00000 O _ -- [
Report (chapter)
during the late Finnmarkian deformation in northern Norway. E of the Iapetus suture in N America, southern...allochthon, Williams, 1g75) Oceanic fracture zone ophiolite (Coastal Complex, Karson & Dewey, Ig/B) O f f...volcanic rocks (Shickshock Gp., ( ) Fragmented ophiolite (Mt. Albert peridotite, tectonically above Shirkshock...UÂŁ-~(?) (St-Julien et e l . , 1983) Fragmented ophiolite (Birchy Complex) tectonically interlayered with...(Haquereau Gp., :ragmented ophiolite as 4eric volc. rocks, incl. -ragmented ophiolite (Advocate Complex) (Williams&
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Geologiske Unders@kelse, Box 3006, Trondheim 7001, Norway A. M. GooowrN Department of Geology, University...Geologiske Unders0kelse, Box 3006, Trondheim 7001, Norway J. SUTTON Department of Geology, Imperial College...shelf of the ocean near the Precambrian outcrops in Norway and the British Isles. Younger Precambrian rocks...Grenville assemblages which outcrop in southern Norway, and possibly locally in the British Isles, and...Spitsbergen and north-eastern Greenland through Norway and the British Isles to the Maritime Provinces
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Dynamics, University of Oslo, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...observations of arc magmatism, HP/UHP metamorphism, ophiolite obduction, etc. can reflect subduction, and thus...et al., 2010), and the Western Gneiss Region of Norway experienced (U)HP metamorphism in the latest Silurian...470 Ma Clew Bay-Highland Border suprasubduction ophiolite complexes 500 490 Accretion to Midland Valley...Middle Ordovician granitoids intruding the Karmøy ophiolite (Pedersen and Dunning, 1997) suggest that this
 
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