Five of the ca. 100 m thick cycles of axial sandstone on Blånibba, the highest point in the Hornelen Basin
Geological map of the Hornelen Basin
Coordinates
61°45′N5°27′E / 61.75°N 5.45°E / 61.75; 5.45
Etymology
Hornelen
Region
Vestland
Country
Norway
Characteristics
On/Offshore
Onshore
Area
1,100 km2 (420 sq mi)
Geology
Basin type
Extensional
Age
Devonian
Faults
Nordfjord-Sogn Detachment
Satellite image of the Hornelen Basin, showing variation in the strike of bedding and the Grøndalen syncline at the southern margin
The Hornelen Basin is a sedimentary basin in Vestland, Norway, containing an estimated 25 km stratigraphic thickness of coarse clastic sedimentary rocks of Devonian age. It forms part of a group of basins of similar age along the west coast of Norway between Sognefjord and Nordfjord, related to movement on the Nordfjord-Sogn Detachment. It formed as a result of extensional tectonics as part of the post-orogenic collapse of crust that was thickened during the Caledonian Orogeny towards the end of the Silurian period. It is named for the mountain Hornelen on the northern margin of the basin.
The HornelenBasin is a sedimentary basin in Vestland, Norway, containing an estimated 25 km stratigraphic thickness of coarse clastic sedimentary rocks...
paleofans include the Triassic basins of eastern North America and the New Red Sandstone of south Devon, the Devonian HornelenBasin of Norway, and the Devonian-Carboniferous...
stratigraphic level and a lack of unconformities within the basin fill. HornelenBasin Solund Basin Fossen, H.; Khani, H.F.; Faleide, J.I.; Ksienzyk, A.; Dunlap...
and around mainland Norway; the Solund, Kvamshesten, Håsteinen and Hornelenbasins along the west coast between Sognefjord and Nordfjord, on the islands...
in the North Sea rift that began during the Permo-Triassic. HornelenBasin Kvamshesten Basin Fossen, H.; Khani, H.F.; Faleide, J.I.; Ksienzyk, A.; Dunlap...
Ducea M.N. (2007). "Exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure rocks beneath the Hornelen segment of the Nordfjord-Sogn Detachment Zone, western Norway" (PDF). Bulletin...
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