Tschermakfjellet Formation Explained

Tschermakfjellet Formation
Type:	Formation
Age:	Early Carnian ~
Period:	Carnian
Prilithology:	Sandstones and silty shales
Namedfor:	Tschermakfjellet (type section from Botneheia)
Region:	Svalbard
Coordinates:	78.5°N 15.3°W
Paleocoordinates:	47.4°N -2.1°W
Unitof:	Kapp Toscana Group
Underlies:	De Geerdalen Formation
Overlies:	Sassendalen Group
Thickness:	at Tschermakfjellet

The Tschermakfjellet Formation is a geological formation in Svalbard, Norway, a subunit of the Kapp Toscana Group. The formation dates to the Late Triassic (early Carnian).

Description

It is named after the mountain of Tschermakfjellet in Dickson Land at Spitsbergen, while its type section is found at Botneheia in Nordenskiöld Land.^{[1] [2]} The formation has provided fossils of invertebrates and of an indeterminate pistosaurid.^[3]

References

Bibliography

• Book: The Triassic Stratigraphy of Svalbard . 1965 . Buchan . S.H. . Challinor . A. . Harland . W. Brian . W. Brian Harland . Parker . J.R. . Oslo . Norsk Polarinstitutt .
• Book: Harland, W. Brian . W. Brian Harland

. The Geology of Svalbard . 1997 . W. Brian Harland . London . . 1-897799-93-4.

Further reading

• H. J. Campbell. 1994. The Triassic bivalves Daonella and Halobia in New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Svalbard. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 4:1-165

Notes and References

1. Harland 1997: p. 349
2. Buchan 1965: p. 26
3. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=44452 Tschermakfjellet, Dickinsonland, Svalbard, early Carnian (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)