Abstract
Summary The lower Naeringselva Member of the 2.5 to 3.5 km thick Båsnaering Formation varies from 60 to 540 m thick, and is part of the 9 km thick late Precambrian Barents Sea Group cropping out on Varanger Peninsula, north-east Finnmark, N. Norway. It is underlain by a minimum 3.2 km of submarine fan deposits and passes up into delta front and fluvio-deltaic deposits of the Båsnaering Formation. Within the lower Naeringselva Member (LNM) four main facies are recognized: parallel-laminated mudstone; current-rippled siltstone; structureless mudstone, and wave-rippled fine-grained sandstone. Soft sediment deformation was abundant as slide, slump and in situ disturbed layers up to tens of metres thick. Erosional-depositional discordances are evident between packets of beds. Palaeocurrent data, together with a limited number of slide fold readings, suggest a west to south-westerly source area for the submarine fan, upper basin-slope/pro-delta and delta deposits. The stratigraphic position and sedimentology of the LNM suggests that it forms part of an ancient upper basin-slope/pro-delta, with fan deposits on the lower basin-slope. Apart from sporadic storm events visibly affecting the slope, it was below wave-base. Modern analogues for the LNM are the upper part of continental slopes separating fan from delta deposits, as in the Mississippi Delta-Slope-Fan system.
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