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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Representatives of the avian taxon Zygodactylidae are among the best known small arboreal birds from the early Palaeogene. Still, however, the anatomy of zygodactylids is not fully understood. It is therefore important ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
In the last few years the tectonostratigraphic model of the Caledonides has been revised, to account for among others the melange unit discussed in this thesis. This unit, which in the past have been overlooked, consist ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The Caledonian mélange unit of South Norway is a unit that has largely been overlooked in previously studies of the Caledonides. The mélange consists of Alpine type metaperidotite bodies now found as serpentinites, talc ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Land use changes increases availability of necessities, but there is also a risk of damaging or depleting natural resources. Groundwater, which is one of the most important natural resources, is dependent on having a balance ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Landslides are amongst the most destructive natural hazards, causing damage to infrastructures, such as roads, railways and houses, and can, in a worst-case scenario, take lives. By studying the effect and response of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The tectonic evolution of the Late Mesoproterozoic Sveconorwegian Province has traditionally been considered to reflect continent-continent collision, which has been correlated with the Grenville Province in Canada. The ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
On geological time scales, the global ocean circulation is controlled by changes in paleobathymetry, including opening and closure of strategic ocean gateways and formation of new ocean basins. In the Cenozoic time (65 - ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Prinicples of sequence stratigraphy were applied to 2D seismic data to study the evolution of a N-S prograding system that developed in the southwestern Barents Sea during Eocene. Four units were interpreted in the basin, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The Horda Platform area, in the Norwegian North Sea, has a complex burial history, including rifting and fault block rotation followed by uplift end subsequent erosion. These processes have affected the elastic properties ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Investigation of the marginal marine Curtis Formation of the Middle to Upper Jurassic succession, composed of the Entrada Sandstone, the Curtis Formation and the Summerville Formation, in ascending order. As a whole, the ...