Abstract

Northwestern Spitsbergen is bounded by Billefjorden and Wijde-fjorden in the east and by the coastline in the north and west round to the southwest by Kongsfjorden (Fig. 8.1). The southern boundary overlaps with the Central Basin (Chapter 4) and central western sector of Spitsbergen (Chapter 9) along Kongsfjorden and Sveabreen. At this boundary Devonian and older rocks are uncon-formably overlain, and finally obscured to the south, by the cover of Carboniferous through Paleogene strata. This sector contains Andree Land, Albert I Land, Haakon VII Land, James I Land and northern Dickson Land. It is deeply penetrated by fjords and largely covered by ice. Apart from Quaternary sediments and volcanics, Cenozoic plateau lavas and the overlying platform sequence (Carboniferous through Paleogene) to the south, the main consideration here is with Devonian sediments, mid-Paleozoic migmatites and granites, and Precambrian metasediments. The Northwestern sector is bounded and divided by faults. The eastern boundary is delineated by the Billefjorden Fault Zone (BFZ) and the southwestern boundary is the postulated Kongs-fjorden-Hansbreen Fault Zone (KHFZ). These faults separate the Central Province respectively from the Eastern and Western provinces. Two main N-S oriented faults divide the sector into three terranes: the Raudfjorden Fault (RFF), and the Breibogen Fault (BBF) (Fig. 8.1) as noted by Holtedahl (1914). The three terranes are introduced below. (1) The Andree Land-Dickson Land Terrane is a large area of Devonian strata bounded by the Breibogen Fault Zone and the Billefjorden Fault Zone. (2) The Biskayerfonna-Holtedahlfonna Terrane is a N-S belt bounded to the

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