Abstract Swath bathymetry, high resolution seismic data and sediment cores were analyzed to reconstruct the Late Weichselian and Holocene sedimentary environments and glacier dynamics in Woodfjorden, Bockfjorden and Liefdefjorden, north Spitsbergen. Mega-scale glacial-lineations provide evidence of fast-flowing grounded ice draining the northwestern parts of the Late Weichselian Svalbard Barents ...

Recent technological advances provide large amounts of data for epidemiological analyses that can provide novel insights in the dynamics of carcinogenesis. These analyses are often performed without prior hypothesis and therefore require an exploratory approach. Realizing exploratory analysis requires the development of new systems that provide interactive exploration and visualization of large-scale ...

Onshore-offshore correlation of brittle faults has been undertaken in the Andfjorden area defining the boundary between the passive Lofoten-Vesterålen margin and the transform SW Barents Sea margin. This study has focused its efforts on onshore mapping of faults and fractures, the mapping of offshore faults and associated basin-ridge systems from seismic interpretation and the link between fault ...

The present “case study” deals with Paleozoic-Mesozoic oblique-dextral strike-slip shear zones situated within the Ersfjord granite (1,79 Ga), that are believed to give valuable insight into fault- and fluid flow mechanics from the brittle-ductile transition zone. Mesoscopic observations combined with microstructural evidence and geochronology suggests that Late Carbonifereous-Early Triassic fault ...

Gravitasjonell reaktivering av pre-eksisterande kaledonske duktile svakheitsoner i tillegg til post-kaledonske sprø strukturar som truleg har vorte utløyst ved glasial avlasting like etter nedsmeltinga av isen under siste istid har truleg gitt opphav til skråningsdeformasjonen og utviklinga av det ustabile fjellpartiet Indre Nordnes. Skredområde Indre Nordnes er initierande tektonisk styrt der ...

Abstract This thesis focuses on establishing a causal relationship between potential fluid sources, fluid migration pathways, shallow gas accumulations and potential gas hydrates in the western part of the Hammerfest Basin, SW Barents Sea. Two 3D seismic surveys (LN0901 and ST8320R00) were used to map fluid flow, stratigraphy, structure, fluid flow and other fluid-related features along the western ...

The aim of this thesis is to study type-I ion outflows in the high latitude ionosphere. Type-I ion outflows are characterized by strong perpendicular electric fields, enhanced and anisotropic ion temperatures and low electron densities below 300 km, indicating small amounts of hard particle precipitation. We scanned data from the EISCAT Madrigal database over a period of 10 years (January 2000 - ...

Background In high-throughput demanding fields, such as biotechnology and structural biology, molecular cloning is an essential tool in obtaining high yields of recombinant protein. Here, we address recently developed restriction-free methods in cloning, and present a more cost-efficient protocol that has been optimized to improve both cloning and clone screening. Results In our case study, ...

This thesis presents the implementation of a numerical real-space method for the calculation of the electronic structure of molecular systems within the self-consistent field approximations of quantum chemistry. The code is based on the multi-resolution multiwavelet basis which provide sparse representations of functions and operators, in particular integral operators with Green's function convolution ...