Mountains of southernmost Norway: uplifted Miocene peneplains and re-exposed Mesozoic surfaces
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The origin of the Norwegian mountains (the Scandes) is a key controversy in modern geoscience. Are they remnants from the Caledonian Orogeny, modified shoulders of late Mesozoic rifts, or are they evidence of Neogene uplifts? Our synthesis of geological data, landscape analysis and new thermochronological data from Norway south of c. 60° N, combined with previously published data from southern Sweden, reveals a four-stage history: (1) Middle Triassic and Middle Jurassic exhumation produced a weathered basement surface with a hilly relief. (2) After late Mesozoic rifting, Upper Jurassic–Oligocene sediments accumulated across most of the area. (3) early Miocene uplift and erosion to the base level of the adjacent ocean led to formation of a peneplain that extended across sedimentary basins and Caledonian rocks; the sub-horizontal Hardangervidda plateau represents this peneplain. (4) early Pliocene uplift raised Hardangervidda to its present elevation of c. 1200 m above sea level and led to re-exposure of the tilted, Mesozoic surface at lower elevations. The Southern Scandes are thus, like other elevated passive continental margins around the world, the product of post-breakup uplift. Identification of the mechanisms driving these uplifts awaits geodynamic modeling constrained by such as those presented in this study.
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Japsen, Peter; Green, Paul F.; Chalmers, James A.; Bonow, Johan M. (2018). Mountains of southernmost Norway: uplifted Miocene peneplains and re-exposed Mesozoic surfaces. Geological Society of London. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4085996.v3
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Peter Japsen
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Paul F. Green
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James A. Chalmers
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Johan M. Bonow
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landscape analysisre-exposed Mesozoic surfacesCaledonian rocksMesozoic riftsMiddle Jurassic exhumationelevationuplifted Miocene peneplainsNorwegian mountainsNeogene upliftsMesozoic surfacefour-stage historyNorwayPliocene upliftbase levelsea levelsub-horizontal Hardangervidda plateauthermochronological datapost-breakup upliftweathered basement surfaceMesozoic riftingCaledonian OrogenyMiocene upliftSouthern Scandes1200 mgeodynamic modelingGeology