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Two fully cored boreholes, the Rødryggen-1 and the Brorson Halvø-1, were drilled in Wollaston Forland, North-East Greenland, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. The objective was to test the stratigraphic development of the Upper Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous mud-dominated succession in two different settings within the same fault block of a developing half-graben: centrally (Rødryggen-1 borehole) and near the uplifted crest of the rotating fault block (Brorson Halvø-1 borehole). The drilled deposits are equivalent to the principal petroleum source-rock sequence of the petroliferous basins of North-West Europe, Siberia, and basins off eastern Canada and provide a new record of an important phase of marine deoxygenation in the proto-North Atlantic region.
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Copyright (c) 2023 Jørgen A Bojesen-Koefoed, Peter Alsen, Morten Bjerager, Jussi Hovikoski, Jon R Ineson, Peter N Johannessen, Mette Olivarius, Stefan Piasecki, Henrik Vosgerau
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The Wollaston Forland Basin in North-East Greenland is a renowned area for research into depositional processes and sedimentary architecture in an evolving rift basin since the pioneering work of Andreas Vischer in the late 1930s. A drilling campaign in 2009–2010 [...]
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