Hornelen Basin
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Hornelen Basin
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The Hornelen Basin is a sedimentary basin in Vestland, Norway, containing an estimated 25 km stratigraphic thickness of coarse clastic sedimentary rocks of Devonian age. It forms part of a group of basins of similar age along the west coast of Norway between Sognefjord and Nordfjord, related to movement on the Nordfjord-Sogn Detachment. It formed as a result of extensional tectonics as part of the post-orogenic collapse of crust that was thickened during the Caledonian Orogeny towards the end of
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Sedimentary basin in Vestland, Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornelen_Basin
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2023-08-29T21:24:07Z
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