Digitising Svalbard’s Geology: the Festningen Digital Outcrop Model

Kim Senger; Peter Betlem; Tom Birchall; Luiz Gonzaga Jr; Sten-Andreas Grundvåg; Rafael Kenji Horota; Andreas Laake; Lilith Kuckero; Atle Mørk; Sverre Planke; Nil Rodes; Aleksandra Smyrak-Sikora

doi:10.3997/1365-2397.fb2022021

ISSN: 0263-5046
E-ISSN: 1365-2397

oa Digitising Svalbard’s Geology: the Festningen Digital Outcrop Model
Authors Kim Senger¹, Peter Betlem^1,2, Tom Birchall¹, Luiz Gonzaga Jr³, Sten-Andreas Grundvåg^1,4, Rafael Kenji Horota^1,5, Andreas Laake⁶, Lilith Kuckero⁷, Atle Mørk⁸, Sverre Planke^2,9, Nil Rodes¹ and Aleksandra Smyrak-Sikora¹
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¹ The University Centre in Svalbard ² University of Oslo ³ University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos ⁴ University of Tromsø - the Arctic University of Norway ⁵ University of Bergen ⁶ Schlumberger GmbH Aachen Technology Center ⁷ Kuckero Science Services ⁸ Independent Researcher ⁹ VBPR AS
Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
Source: First Break, Volume 40, Issue 3, Mar 2022, p. 47 - 55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3997/1365-2397.fb2022021
- Published online: 01 Mar 2022

Abstract

The renowned Festningen section in the outer part of Isfjorden, western Spitsbergen, offers a c. 7 km-long nearly continuous stratigraphic section of Lower Carboniferous to Cenozoic strata, spanning nearly 300 million years of geological history. Tectonic deformation associated with the Paleogene West-Spitsbergen-Fold-and-Thrust belt tilted the strata to near-vertical, allowing easy access to the section along the shoreline. The Festningen section is a regionally important stratigraphic reference profile, and thus a key locality for any geologist visiting Svalbard. The lithology variations, dinosaur footprints, and the many fossil groups, record more than 300 million years of continental drift, climate change, and sea level variations. In addition, the Festningen section is the only natural geoscientific monument protected by law (i.e. geotope) in Svalbard. In this contribution, we present a digital outcrop model (DOM) of the Festningen section processed from 3762 drone photographs. The resulting high-resolution model offers detail down to 7.01 mm, covers an area of 0.8 km² and can be freely accessed via the Svalbox database. Through Svalbox, we also put the Festningen model in a regional geological context by comparing it to nearby offshore seismic, exploration boreholes penetrating the same stratigraphy and publications on the deep-time paleoclimate trends recorded at Festningen.

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