pillows are a main characteristic. (HERSGRSORite Ui cUpS Aepasit Vertical ABOVE IATUAIESTOD _evaporites, opposed to laterally absent where the salt pillows are present, suggesting that salt has (CETRSpIACEN BYRNE WEIRTON ERO BGIGELP The result supports antecedent topography asa dominant component affecting the carbonate build-up succession in the easter Bjarmeland Platform and the northern Finnmark Platform. Furthermore, the build-up development in the two areas on western Bjarmeland Platform, and southern Finnmark Platform, has been controlled by physical conditions influenced by a combination of biotic self-organization, fossil reef growth and karst-induced structures caused by dissolution of the underlying carbonate strata. ((HGISUnTeHE) “geomorphology of the carbonate build-up succession has been enhanced due to remobilization of the mobile evaporite unit asa result of differential loading by the carbonate build-ups. The carbonate succession in the Barents Sea consists of SSF Mea aS (Ges TSN AST ane ae TSRAPAHOMAGABUPS Carbonate build-ups are a common Sverdrup Land, Canada by Beauchamp et al. (1994); @nGhidinithatl th Carbonate bois) “grew on major structural highs, and that there is a considerable sea-level control on the distribution of earbonates and evaporites. successions. The most recent study on the controlling factors is the study by Colpaert et al. (200) gues tha fTSOAERBUS to he TABS oF the BRSGRRTE HAAS) +1234 Carbonate and Evaporite Deposition The carbonate factory is defined as the generally shallow seafloor located within the photic zone. Carbonate sediments consist of particles that are born in this zone. The variability of particles made in the carbonate factory is bom in a variety of grain sizes, precipitated directly from seawater or as erystalized skeletons (Kendall and Jones, 1992). The se generally for reefs, mounds or as widespread sub tidal deposi ‘carbonate accumulation is a direct relation to the eustatie sea level changes, where carbonates rely on a certain (itiRbSRSE CSRS TOMETOWIA) with the (HiBHESERARS SH ACCRAAISHR located “within the photic zone, Consequently, sea-level highstand results in shut-down of the carbonate factory, and sea level lowstand results in sub aerial exposure of the platform (Kendall and Jones, 192), (GERRTOPHMEHECarbonates are classified into two different croupséiieteniznaniaand /prOROzaa carbonate associations (James. 1997). Protozoan carbonates are primarily controlled by light and (CRAALSRAESATEMMAAITAEMEPEAGEHM The large-scale production of carbonate is‘The Barents Sea region is subdivided into a large number of basins and structural highs (Figure 5). SOURCE NGAWERBEEHSISENREROH CRP of the Bjarmeland Platform, Nordkapp Basin, (EiGHMGERUPISHOHM Tiddlybanken Basin and Hjalmar Johansen High (Figure (GROMAASAESISGAANEVERED These two collisions dominate the structural fabric in the region (Dodson, 2014), which governs the orientation of the @U2HS0HSNEVERES that occurred in the (HE) (DEVO (LRIENPSIEGZAIS ond ASG (Henriksen ct al, 2011), CHRCNRSUSTRUCTTATEAE) was development in the Caledonian Orogeny in the Ordovician — Early Devonian (Rey et al. 1997), THETCRIEUGHIGES were created as « fESUITTRERIOSINE OR APHUSISED during the COIS) of the (URSHta aie BANE PIAIES (Rey ct al., 1997; Dodson, 2014), (HESSeSHe Semeur HD ‘was developed during the QI and the creation of the QMS The Urals were developed during the collision of the Lauratian-Baltica and Western Siberian plates (Puchkov, 2009), The upper Paleozoic succession in the Norwegian Barents Sea shelf consists of a Mississippian sliciclasties sequence followed by carbonate sequence ranging from Carboniferous to Late (PeriniaRIRIRE (Buggc ct al. 1995; Stemmerik et al., 1995). (ORESArDOHatE SUCCESSION CORSE OD GRITS (protozoan) GRAPRBINATER (hetcrozoan) EREBSTARETAEPOSIED The deposition of the carbonate succession occurred from the Pennsylvanian — Late Permian. 188. (SHCEESSIONNCORAPHISES ot GloitEMoTHInAteA PTOI ZOaHTeATLOHAEES in the lower sequence deposited during the Pennsylvanian — Lower Permian QD (Figure 6). “Heterozoan limestone and bryozoan build-ups in the Bjarmeland Group deposited during the Lower to Middle Permian (Figure 6). (HGUGSRSRICHBORAIGISEGUEHED is defined as the ‘Tempelforden Group, and @GRSiStSTOP RES Tian SilieaeFiCh investOne) CHEF aHA PCUTES) (Figure 6; Larssen et al, 2005; Larssen eta, 2002).