• Shallow carbon storage in ancient buried thermokarst in the South Kara Sea 

      Portnov, Aleksei D; Mienert, Jürgen; Winsborrow, Monica; Andreassen, Karin; Vadakkepuliyambatta, Sunil; Semenov, Peter; Gataullin, Valery (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-25)
      Geophysical data from the South Kara Sea reveal U-shaped erosional structures buried beneath the 50–250 m deep seafloor of the continental shelf across an area of ~32 000 km<sup>2</sup>. These structures are interpreted as thermokarst, formed in ancient yedoma terrains during Quaternary interglacial periods. Based on comparison to modern yedoma terrains, we suggest that these thermokarst features ...
    • Structural and fluid-migration control on hill-hole pair formation: Evidence from high-resolution 3D seismic data from the SW Barents Sea 

      Bellwald, Benjamin; Stokke, Henrik Henriksen; Winsborrow, Monica; Planke, Sverre; Sættem, Joar; Lebedeva-Ivanova, Nina; Hafeez, Amer; Kurjanski, Bartosz; Myklebust, Reidun Alice; Polteau, Stephane (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-11)
      Hill-hole pairs are subglacial landforms consisting of thrust-block hills and associated source depressions. Formed by evacuation of material where ice sheets have been locally frozen to the substrate, they give insights into paleo-ice-sheet dynamics. The aim of this study was to document the relationships between ancient hill-hole pairs identified on a buried glacial unconformity with the structure ...
    • Subglacial roughness of the former Barents Sea ice sheet 

      Gudlaugsson, Eythor; Humbert, A.; Winsborrow, Monica; Andreassen, Karin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      The roughness of a glacier bed has high importance for the estimation of the sliding velocity and can also provide valuable insights into the dynamics and history of ice sheets, depending on scale. Measurement of basal properties in present-day ice sheets is restricted to ground-penetrating radar and seismics, with surveys retrieving relatively coarse data sets. Deglaciated areas, like the Barents ...
    • Subglacial water storage and drainage beneath the Fennoscandian and Barents Sea ice sheets 

      Shackleton, Calvin; Patton, Henry; Hubbard, Alun Lloyd; Winsborrow, Monica; Kingslake, Jonathan; Esteves, Mariana da Silveira Ramos; Andreassen, Karin; Greenwood, Sarah L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-17)
      Subglacial hydrology modulates how ice sheets flow, respond to climate, and deliver meltwater, sediment and nutrients to proglacial and marine environments. Here, we investigate the development of subglacial lakes and drainage networks beneath the Fennoscandian and Barents Sea ice sheets over the Late Weichselian. Utilizing an established coupled climate/ice flow model, we calculate high-resolution, ...
    • Widespread natural methane and oil leakage from sub-marine Arctic reservoirs 

      Serov, Pavel; Mattingsdal, Rune; Winsborrow, Monica; Patton, Henry; Andreassen, Karin Marie (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-30)
      Parceling the anthropogenic and natural (geological) sources of fossil methane in the atmosphere remains problematic due to a lack of distinctive chemical markers for their discrimination. In this light, understanding the distribution and contribution of potential geological methane sources is important. Here we present empirical observations of hitherto undocumented, widespread and extensive methane ...