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dc.contributor.authorAmbrose, William
dc.contributor.authorPanieri, Giuliana
dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorPlaza-Faverola, Andreia
dc.contributor.authorCarroll, Michael Leslie
dc.contributor.authorÅström, Emmelie
dc.contributor.authorLocke, W.L.
dc.contributor.authorCarroll, JoLynn
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-24T11:44:35Z
dc.date.available2016-05-05T05:50:04Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-05
dc.description.abstractWe studied discrete bivalve shell horizons in two gravity cores from seafloor pockmarks on the Vestnesa Ridge (1200 m water depth) and western Svalbard (798000 N, 068550 W) to provide insight into the temporal and spatial dynamics of seabed methane seeps. The shell beds, dominated by two genera of the family Vesicomyidae: Phreagena s.l. and Isorropodon sp., were 20–30 cm thick and centered at 250– 400 cm deep in the cores. The carbon isotope composition of inorganic (d13C from 213.02& to 12.36&) and organic (d13C from 229.28& to 221.33&) shell material and a two-end member mixing model indicate that these taxa derived between 8% and 43% of their nutrition from chemosynthetic bacteria. In addition, negative d13C values for planktonic foraminifera (26.7& to 23.1&), concretions identified as methane-derived authigenic carbonates, and pyrite-encrusted fossil worm tubes at the shell horizons indicate a sustained paleo-methane seep environment. Combining sedimentation rates with 14C ages for bivalve material from the shell horizons, we estimate the horizons persisted for about 1000 years between approximately 17,707 and 16,680 years B.P. (corrected). The seepage event over a 1000 year time interval was most likely associated with regional stress-related faulting and the subsequent release of overpressurized fluids.en_US
dc.descriptionPublished version also available at <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GC005980>http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GC005980</a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationGeochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 2015, 16(12):4108-4129en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1292824
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/2015GC005980
dc.identifier.issn1525-2027
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/8544
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_8120
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU)en_US
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 223259en_US
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 223259en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Marin geologi: 466en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Marine geology: 466en_US
dc.titleBivalve shell horizons in seafloor pockmarks of the last glacial-interglacial transition suggest a thousand years of methane emissions in the Arctic Oceanen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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