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2026

  1. Michaelsen, P., and Storetvedt, K.M. (in prep): Depositional dynamics and post-burial alteration of Late Permian coal-bearing coastal successions, Erdenebulag sub-basin, South Gobi, Mongolia.
  2. Storetvedt, K.M. and Michaelsen, P. (submitted): Deep fluid dynamics, accelerated plateau uplift and planetary-scale rotational forces – the triad driving shallow ductile neotectonic deformation: a case study from the barren Ulaan Tolgoi district of South Gobi, Mongolia.
  3. Michaelsen, P., and Storetvedt, K.M. (in review): Depositional setting of the Middle Permian Glossopteris-bearing Ovgon Tolgoi Formation, Khatanbulag sub-basin, Southern Mongolia.
  4. Michaelsen, P., and Storetvedt, K.M. 2026: Wrench tectonics and major environmental changes across the Permo-Triassic boundary recorded in a coal-bearing basin, South Mongolia. Mongolian Geoscientist, 31(62), 65-90. https://doi.org/10.5564/mgs.v31i62.5643

2025

  1. Michaelsen, P. and Storetvedt, K.M. (in prep): The Glossopteris discoveries in Southern Mongolia and the worldwide occurrence of the flora lineage: A causal connection. 

2024

  1. Storetvedt, K.M. and Michaelsen, P. 2024: Sedimentary basins, hydrocarbons, graphite, coal, and Cu-Au deposits – from Mongolia to the Pacific margin: Interplay between the ubiquitous orthogonal fracture network and Global Wrench Tectonics. Mongolian Geoscientist.
  2. Michaelsen, P. and Demberelsuren, B. 2024: Petro-chemical characterization and depositional setting of a  late Permian high ash coal deposit, Central Mongolia.
  3. Michaelsen, P. and Storetvedt, K.M. 2024: Protracted destabilization and collapse of peat mire ecosystems at the Permo-Triassic boundary recorded by a sequence of related transtensive sub-basins in central and southern Mongolia. Permophiles, 76, 46-51.
  4. Storetvedt, K.M. and Michaelsen, P. (in prep): Global extension of late Palaeozoic–to Mesozoic crustal attenuation, basin formation, eustatic sea level changes, and paleogeography mirrored in Mongolian facts.

2023

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Nordic’s extensive fieldwork in central and southern Mongolia reveals that inertia-driven transtensive reactivation of primordial fractures during the Permian forged a complex network of distinct, fault-bounded coal-bearing sub-basins.
Schematic depositional model illustrating the structural controls on Late Permian coal measures in central and southern Mongolia. Wrench faulting directly governed the accommodation space and basin architecture. Active fault zones generated highly localized subsidence, creating optimal structural traps that favored thick, high-ash peat accumulation and the preservation of high-value energy resources.
Dr Michaelsen, Nordic Co-Founder