• Deep-time Arctic climate archives: high-resolution coring of Svalbard's sedimentary record – SVALCLIME, a workshop report 

      Senger, Kim; Kulhanek, Denise; Jones, Morgan T.; Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra; Planke, Sverre; Zuchuat, Valentin; foster, William J.; Grundvåg, Sten-Andreas; Lorenz, Henning; Ruhl, Micha; Sliwinska, Kasia K.; Vickers, Madeleine L.; Xu, Weimu (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-26)
      ​​​​​​​We held the MagellanPlus workshop SVALCLIME “Deep-time Arctic climate archives: high-resolution coring of Svalbard's sedimentary record”, from 18 to 21 October​​​​​​​ 2022 in Longyearbyen, to discuss scientific drilling of the unique high-resolution climate archives of Neoproterozoic to Paleogene age present in the sedimentary record of Svalbard. Svalbard is globally unique in that it facilitates ...
    • Digitising Svalbard’s geology: the Festningen digital outcrop model 

      Senger, Kim; Betlem, Peter; Birchall, Thomas; Gonzaga Jr., Luis; Grundvåg, Sten-Andreas; Horota, Rafael Kenji; Laake, Andreas; Kuckero, Lilith; Mørk, Atle; Planke, Sverre; Rodes, Nil; Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-10)
      The renowned Festningen section in the outer part of Isfjorden, western Spitsbergen, offers a c. 7 km-long nearly continuous stratigraphic section of Lower Carboniferous to Cenozoic strata, spanning nearly 300 million years of geological history. Tectonic deformation associated with the Paleogene West-Spitsbergen-Fold-and-Thrust belt tilted the strata to near-vertical, allowing easy access to the ...
    • Feasibility of using the P-Cable high-resolution 3D seismic system in detecting and monitoring CO2 leakage 

      Waage, Malin; Singhroha, Sunny; Bünz, Stefan; Planke, Sverre; Waghorn, Kate Alyse; Bellwald, Benjamin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-23)
      The P-Cable technology is an acquisition principle for high-resolution and ultra-high-resolution 3D seismic data. Many 3D seismic datasets have been acquired over the last decade, but the application in time-lapse studies for monitoring of CO2 storage is a new and intriguing topic. High-resolution 3D (HR3D) seismic has the potential to detect and monitor CO2 leakage at carbon capture and storage ...
    • Glacigenic sedimentation pulses triggered postglacial gas hydrate dissociation 

      Karstens, Jens; Haflidason, Haflidi; Becker, Lukas W.M.; Berndt, Christian; Rüpke, Lars; Planke, Sverre; Liebetrau, Volker; Schmidt, Markus; Mienert, Jürgen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-12)
      Large amounts of methane are stored in continental margins as gas hydrates. They are stable under high pressure and low, but react sensitively to environmental changes. Bottom water temperature and sea level changes were considered as main contributors to gas hydrate dynamics after the last glaciation. However, here we show with numerical simulations that pulses of increased sedimentation dominantly ...
    • High-resolution 3D seismic study of pockmarks and shallow fluid flow systems at the Snøhvit hydrocarbon field in the SW Barents Sea 

      Tasianas, Alexandros; Bünz, Stefan; Bellwald, Benjamin; Hammer, Øyvind; Planke, Sverre; Lebedeva-Ivanova, Nina; Krassakis, Pavlos (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-21)
      The Barents Sea is an epicontinental shelf sea with a fragmented structure consisting of long fault complexes, basins and basement highs. Fluid leakage from deep-seated hydrocarbon accumulations is a widespread phenomenon and mostly related to its denudation history during the glacial/interglacial cycles. In this study, we aimed to better understand shallow fluid flow processes that have led to the ...
    • High-resolution landform assemblage along a buried glacio-erosive surface in the SW Barents Sea revealed by P-Cable 3D seismic data 

      Bellwald, Benjamin; Planke, Sverre; Lebedeva-Ivanova, Nina; Piasecka, Emilia Daria; Andreassen, Karin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-01)
      The Quaternary sedimentary record in the Arctic captures a diverse and evolving range of landscapes reflecting cli-mate changes. Here we study the geological landform assemblage of the Upper Regional Unconformity (URU) in theSW Barents Sea. The aims are (i) to characterize buried geological landforms on a meter-scale resolution, (ii) to un-derstand their link with underlying structures, and (iii) ...
    • Ice-stream dynamics of the SW Barents Sea revealed by high-resolution 3D seismic imaging of glacial deposits in the Hoop area 

      Bellwald, Benjamin; Planke, Sverre; Piasecka, Emilia Daria; Matar, M.A.; Andreassen, Karin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-07)
      Recent developments in seismic acquisition systems and seismic data visualization have contributed to improve the imaging of seismic geomorphologies over a broad range of topics. This study focuses on a new high-resolution P-Cable 3D seismic cube located in the Hoop area in the SW Barents Sea. The scientific motivations of the study are (1) to document glacial landforms on a meter-scale, (2) to study ...
    • Meter-Scale 3D Seismic Data for High-Resolution Site Characterization 

      Lebedeva-Ivanova, Nina; Polteau, Stephane; Zastrozhnov, Dmitry; Planke, Sverre; Waage, Malin; Bünz, Stefan; Bellwald, Benjamin; Vanneste, Maarten; Sauvin, Guillaume; Myklebust, R. (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2019-06-03)
      High-resolution 3D site characterization can deliver reliable quantitative property volumes of the subsurface when based on seismic data able to image meter-sized objects. Following the theoretical analysis of seismic wave propagation in the shallow sub-surface, we present case studies based on re-processing of 3D P-Cable seismic data. The case study of data re-processing from the Vestnesa Ridge ...
    • Quaternary and Neogene Reservoirs of the Norwegian Continental Shelf and the Faroe-Shetland Basin 

      Bellwald, Benjamin; Planke, Sverre; Vadakkepuliyambatta, Sunil; Buenz, Stefan; Batchelor, Christine L.; Manton, Ben; Zastrozhnov, Dmitry; Walker, Faye; Myklebust, Reidun (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-01)
      Glaciogenic reservoirs host important hydrocarbon resources across the globe. Examples such as the Peon and Aviat discoveries in the North Sea show that Quaternary and Neogene reservoirs can be prospective in the region. In this study, we interpret 2D and 3D reflection seismic data combined with borehole information to document unconventional play models from the shallow subsurface of the Norwegian ...
    • Shallow-water hydrothermal venting linked to the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum 

      Berndt, Christian; Planke, Sverre; Alvarez Zarikian, Carlos A.; Frieling, Joost; Jones, Morgan Thomas; Millett, John M.; Brinkhuis, Henk; Bünz, Stefan; Svensen, Henrik Hovland; Longman, Jack; Scherer, Reed P.; Karstens, Jens; Manton, Ben; Nelissen, Mei; Reed, Brandon; Faleide, Jan Inge; Huismans, Ritske Sipke; Agarwal, Amar; Andrews, Graham D.M.; Betlem, Peter; Bhattacharya, Joyeeta; Chatterjee, Sayantani; Christopoulou, Marialena; Clementi, Vincent J.; Ferré, Eric C.; Filina, Irina Y.; Guo, Pengyuan; Harper, Dustin T.; Lambart, Sarah; Mohn, Geoffroy; Nakaoka, Reina; Tegner, Christian; Varela, Natalia; Wang, Mengyuan; Xu, Weimu; Yager, Stacy L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-08-03)
      The Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was a global warming event of 5–6 °C around 56 million years ago caused by input of carbon into the ocean and atmosphere. Hydrothermal venting of greenhouse gases produced in contact aureoles surrounding magmatic intrusions in the North Atlantic Igneous Province have been proposed to play a key role in the PETM carbon-cycle perturbation, but the precise ...
    • 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 ...
    • The tectonized central peak of the Mjølnir Impact Crater, Barents Sea 

      Corseri, Romain; Gac, Sebastien; Faleide, Jan Inge; Planke, Sverre (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-04)
      The Mjølnir structure, SW Barents Sea, is one of the best-preserved marine impact craters on Earth. After impact on the paleo-seafloor about 142 Ma ago, this crater experienced an atypical deformation of its central peak, which is now elevated ~435 m above the crater rims. Here, we investigate the effect of far-field tectonic stresses on the central peak uplift based on interpretation of new ...
    • Upper cretaceous-paleogene stratigraphy and development of the Mímir High, Vøring transform margin, Norwegian Sea 

      Polteau, Stephane; Planke, Sverre; Zastrozhnov, Dmitrii; Abdelmalak, Mohamed Mansour; Lebedeva-Ivanova, Nina; Eckhoff Planke, Ellen; Svensen, Henrik; Mazzini, Adriano; Gernigon, Laurent; Myklebust, Reidun; Kjølhamar, Bent; Pedersen, Rolf B.; Sandstå, Nils Rune; Bünz, Stefan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-19)
      Transform margins represent strike-slip type of plate boundaries that form during continental breakup and initial ocean opening. They are often characterized by margin-parallel highs with exposed pre- and syn-rift sequences. The Vøring Transform Margin, offshore mid-Norway, initiated in the earliest Eocene during the opening of the NE Atlantic. Here, 2D seismic reflection data reveal a transform ...