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Triassic transgressive-regressive cycles in the Sverdrup Basin, Svalbard and the Barents Shelf

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Correlation in Hydrocarbon Exploration

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Nine transgressive-regressive (T-R) cycles have recently been recognized in the Triassic succession of the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada (Embry, 1988). The transgressions which initiated the cycles are dated as earliest Griesbachian, earliest Smithian, late Smithian, earliest Anisian, early Ladinian, earliest Carnian, mid-Carnian, earliest Norian, latest Norian and earliest Jurassic.

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Mørk, A., Embry, A.F., Weitschat, W. (1989). Triassic transgressive-regressive cycles in the Sverdrup Basin, Svalbard and the Barents Shelf. In: Collinson, J.D. (eds) Correlation in Hydrocarbon Exploration. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1149-9_11

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