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Palaeomagnetism, magnetic fabrics and the structural style of the Hornelen Old Red Sandstone, Western Norway

¹ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
² Geological Survey of Norway, P. O. Box 3006, N-7001 Trondheim, Norway
³ Department of Geology, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK
⁴ Institute of Geology, University of Bergen, N-5000 Bergen, Norway
⁵ Institute of Geophysics, University of Bergent N-5000 Bergen, Norway

The Old Red Sandstone of the Hornelen district, western Norway, forms part of a major fold-terrane, and the principal magnetization is associated with the Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous Svalbardian/Solundian Orogeny. The present fault margins of the Hornelen Massif, claimed by various authors to represent subordinate Devonian splay faults associated with megashearing in the North Atlantic or lateral ramps in a regional extensional tectonic setting, are shown to be post-Devonian structures, and the present outline of the Hornelen Massif is a Mesozoic (Jurassic) ‘graben’.

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