<p>A 513 cm long sediment core from the Lofoten Contourite Drift at the continental slope west of the Lofoten Islands has been investigated. The aim was to reconstruct the paleoceanography during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The Lofoten Contourite drift was relatively protected by the Lofoten Islands from the ice streams of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet during LGM. <p>An age model was constructed ...

We tested two miniaturized extraction chromatography protocols for strontium isolation based on 300 μL (Protocol 1) and 30 μL (Protocol 2) column volumes of Sr‐Spec resin, for the simultaneous determination of 87Sr/86Sr and δ88/86Sr by MC‐ICP‐MS. The accuracy and precision of the Sr isotope ratios have been evaluated by analyzing JCt‐1 and SRM 1640a reference materials, resulting in a reproducibility ...

Planktic foraminifera and shelled pteropods are some of the major producers of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) in the ocean. Their calcitic (foraminifera) and aragonitic (pteropods) shells are particularly sensitive to changes in the carbonate chemistry and play an important role for the inorganic and organic carbon pump of the ocean. Here, we have studied the abundance distribution of planktic ...

Rockfalls and snow avalanches are a major natural hazard and common phenomenon in mountainous areas in Norway, endangering people and infrastructure. Svarthola, on Fv 862, Senja, is a 100 m long unprotected stretch of road that experiences a high frequency of mass movements. The road is situated at a tunnel portal, between a 100 m high cliff and the fjord. As such, it is the only short access route ...

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 ...

As seismic data from the lower crust becomes more readily available, it is important to link seismic properties to the ongoing processes within lower crustal evolution. This includes high temperature, pre‐ and post‐migmatization solid state deformation as well as melt‐present deformation. We selected two tonalitic migmatites with variable former melt content (one metatexite and one diatexite) from ...

Rare earth element and yttrium (REY) systematics of authigenic seep carbonates can provide insights into the physico-chemical characteristics of seep systems and allow discrimination of carbonate precipitation under seawater- or porewater-dominated fluid regimes. However, care must be taken when interpreting their REY systematics, since seep carbonates comprise a mixture of detrital silicates and ...

Highly negative δ¹³C values in fossil foraminifera from methane cold seeps have been proposed to reflect episodes of methane release from gas hydrate dissociation or free gas reservoirs triggered by climatic changes in the past. Because most studies on live foraminifera are based on the presence of Rose Bengal staining, that colors the cytoplasm of both live and recently dead individuals ...

Seafloor seepage sites along the Vestnesa Ridge off west-Svalbard have been, for decades, a natural laboratory for the studies of fluid flow and gas hydrate dynamics at passive continental margins. The lack of ground truth evidence for fluid composition and gas hydrate abundance deep in the sediment sequence however prohibits us from further assessing the current model of pockmark evolution from the ...

The Svalbard margin, in the eastern Fram Strait with its high sediment accumulation, form a key area for the reconstruction of water mass and heat exchange between the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean in relation to abrupt climate changes as seen in glacial Greenland Interstadial and Greenland Stadial (GI‐GS) events. Here, we present a bottom water temperature (BWT) record from the northern Nordic ...