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2026 – New scientific papers underway incl:

  1. Michaelsen, P., & Storetvedt, K. . (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

Michaelsen, P. and Storetvedt, K.M., 2023: Tectonic evolution of a sequence of related late Permian transtensive coal-bearing sub-basins, Mongolia: A global wrench tectonics portrait. Mongolian Geoscientist, 28, 1-53. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5564/mgs.v28i57.3200

All scientific contributions available @ ResearchGate

Extensive field work by Nordic in central and southern Mongolia shows that during the late Permian inertia-driven transtensive reactivation of primordial fracture zones gave rise to the development of a sequence of related yet disconnected fault-bounded sub-basins.
Schematic depositional model for the late Permian high ash coal measures in central Mongolia (Michaelsen and Storetvedt, 2024). Wedge-shaped coal “sweet spots” developed proximal to active transtensive faults.
Dr Michaelsen, Nordic Co-Founder