Quantifying bedrock weathering rates under diverse climate conditions is essential to understanding timescales of landscape evolution. Yet, weathering rates are often difficult to constrain, and associating a weathered landform to a specific formative environment can be complicated by overprinting of successive processes and temporally varying climate. In this study, we investigate three sites ...

Observational and geomorphological records suggest that most glaciers on Svalbard reached their maximum Little Ice Age extents by means of surging. Furthermore, it seems to have happened within just a few decades, suggesting that the rapid concurrent changes in climate might have triggered this widespread surging. The specific precipitation and temperature range of Svalbard seems optimal for glacier ...

The benthic foraminifera of two marine sediment cores were studied as a proxy for paleoenvironment reconstructions throughout the Late to Early Holocene. The two cores were sampled in different localities to allow a spatial comparison of changing environments in the Nordic Seas and sampled for benthic foraminiferal assemblages, grain size, IRD, sortable silts and benthic foraminifera isotopes. While ...

This work investigates the pre-collisional (before ca. 650 Ma) history of the Dom Feliciano Belt in southernmost Brazil through geochronological and zircon oxygen isotope study. U–Pb SHRIMP dating of two orthogneiss samples from the Várzea do Capivarita Complex and one metarhyolite sample from the Porongos Complex yielded crystallisation ages of 786 ± 5 Ma, 780 ± 10 Ma and 787 ± 5 Ma, respectively. ...

Two gravity cores JM06-024-GC3 and JM07-049-GC1 from Smeerenburgfjorden at the northwestern corner of Svalbard have been investigated for the distribution pattern of the benthic foraminiferal faunas. The oxygen and carbon isotope values in benthic foraminifera were analysed and together with other proxy data such as ice rafted debris (IRD), were used in order to reconstruct the paleoceanography and ...

Storfjorden is a large north-south trending sound located in the southern part of Svalbard in the northwestern Barents Sea. Presently, several glaciers drain into the northern and western part of Storfjorden. Our study area covers the southern part of the sound, which is divided by a north-south striking basement ridge (the ‘Mid-ridge’) into a narrow western trough (‘Little-Storfjorden’) and a broader ...

The benthic foraminiferal fauna of two marine sediment records from the Kongsfjorden Trough and the inner part of Kongsfjorden were analyzed to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental development throughout the last ~ 2000 years. A generally cold period is evident in both records, lasting from ~ 700 to 1400 CE at the Kongsfjorden Trough and from ~ 350 to 1200 CE in the inner part of Kongsfjorden, with ...

On June 3rd, 2020 a major quick clay landslide occurred at Kråknes in Alta municipality, Northern Norway. The landslide event destroyed eight buildings and was estimated to be 650 meters wide and 40 meters high. Two days later, another landslide occurred, this time causing the old E6 road above the previous landslide area to slip out towards the sea. People lost cabins and other valuable possessions, ...

Reconstruction of geomagnetic field changes has a strong potential to complement geodynamo modeling and improve the understanding of Earth's core dynamics. Recent works based on geomagnetic measurements pointed out that over the last two decades the position of the north magnetic pole has been largely determined by the influence of two competing flux lobes under Canada and Siberia. In order to ...