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    • A 1.3-Myr palaeoceanographic record from the continental margin off Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica 

      Forsberg, Carl Fredrik; Løvlie, Reidar; Jansen, Eystein; Solheim, Anders; Sejrup, Hans Petter; Lie, Hans Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2003-09-15)
      A 12.5 m long core was retrieved from the continental margin off Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Magnetostratigraphy, stable isotopes, 14C accelerator mass spectrometer and amino acid analyses indicate a continuous sediment ...
    • 3-D seismic images of an extensive igneous sill in the lower crust 

      Wrona, Thilo; Magee, Craig; Fossen, Haakon; Gawthorpe, Rob; Bell, Rebecca E.; Jackson, Christopher Aiden Lee; Faleide, Jan Inge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-31)
      When continents rift, magmatism can produce large volumes of melt that migrate upwards from deep below the Earth’s surface. To understand how magmatism impacts rifting, it is critical to understand how much melt is generated ...
    • The 30 June 2017 North Sea Earthquake: Location, Characteristics, and Context 

      Jerkins, Annie; Shiddiqi, Hasbi Ash; Kværna, Tormod; Gibbons, Steven John; Schweitzer, Johannes; Ottemöller, Lars; Bungum, Hilmar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The Mw 4.5 southern Viking graben earthquake on 30 June 2017 was one of the largest seismic events in the Norwegian part of the North Sea during the last century. It was well recorded on surrounding broadband seismic ...
    • 3D structure and formation of hydrothermal vent complexes at the paleocene-eocene transition, the Møre basin, MID-Norwegian margin 

      Kjoberg, Sigurd; Schmiedel, Tobias; Planke, Sverre; Svensen, Henrik; Millett, John; Jerram, Dougal Alexander; Galland, Olivier; Lecomte, Isabelle; Schofield, Nick; Haug, Øystein Thorden; Helsem, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-08)
      The mid-Norwegian margin is regarded as an example of a volcanic-rifted margin, formed prior to and during, Paleogene breakup of the northeast Atlantic. The area is characterized by the presence of voluminous basaltic ...
    • Abiotic synthesis of methane and organic compounds in Earth’s lithosphere 

      Reeves, Eoghan; Fiebig, Jens (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Accumulation of molecular hydrogen in geologic systems can create conditions energetically favorable to transform inorganic carbon into methane and other organic compounds. Although hydrocarbons with a potentially abiotic ...
    • Abrupt high-latitude climate events and decoupled seasonal trends during the Eemian 

      Salonen, J. Sakari; Helmens, Karin F.; Brendryen, Jo; Kuosmanen, Niina; Väliranta, Minna; Goring, Simon; Korpela, Mikko; Kylander, Malin; Philip, Annemarie; Plikk, Anna; Renssen, Hans; Luoto, Miska (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-07-20)
      The Eemian (the Last Interglacial; ca. 129–116 thousand years ago) presents a testbed for assessing environmental responses and climate feedbacks under warmer-than-present boundary conditions. However, climate syntheses ...
    • Acoustic waveform inversion for ocean turbulence 

      Minakov, Alexander; Keers, Henk; Kolyukhin, Dmitriy; Tengesdal, Hans Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      The seismic oceanography method is based on extracting and stacking the low-frequency acoustic energy scattered by the ocean heterogeneity. However, a good understanding on how this acoustic wavefield is affected by physical ...
    • Aftershock study of the 2019 Ambon earthquake using moment tensor inversion: identification of fault reactivation in northern Banda, Indonesia 

      Baskara, Aria W.; Sahara, David P.; Nugraha, Andri D.; Rusdin, Andi Azhar; Zulfakriza, Z.; Widiyantoro, Sri; Triyoso, Wahyu; Priyono, Awali; Puspito, Nanang T.; Shiddiqi, Hasbi Ash; Kusumawati, Dian; Rudyawan, Alfend; Elly, Erfin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      On September 26, 2019, an Mw 6.5 earthquake occurred 23 km northeast of Ambon City, Indonesia, followed by numerous aftershock series related to a complex fault network reactivation in the Ambon and Seram region. Using ...
    • Alps to Apennines zircon roller coaster along the Adria microplate margin 

      Jacobs, Joachim; Paoli, Gabriele; Rocchi, Sergio; Ksienzyk, Anna Katharina; Sirevaag, Hallgeir; Elburg, Marlina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-02-09)
      We have traced the particle path of high-pressure metasedimentary rocks on Elba Island, Northern Apennines, with the help of a U-Pb-Hf detrital zircon study. One quarter of the analysed zircons are surprisingly young, ...
    • Alps to Apennines zircon roller coaster along the Adria microplate margin 

      Jacobs, Joachim; Paoli, Gabriele; Rocchi, Sergio; Ksienzyk, Anna Katharina; Sirevaag, Hallgeir; Elburg, Marlina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-02-09)
      We have traced the particle path of high-pressure metasedimentary rocks on Elba Island, Northern Apennines, with the help of a U-Pb-Hf detrital zircon study. One quarter of the analysed zircons are surprisingly young, ...
    • Ambient noise levels and detection threshold in Norway 

      Demuth, Andrea; Ottemöller, Lars; Keers, Henk (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-07)
      Ambient seismic noise is caused by a number of sources in specific frequency bands. The quantification of ambient noise makes it possible to evaluate station and network performance. We evaluate noise levels in Norway from ...
    • Ammonia-oxidizing archaea have similar power requirements in diverse marine oxic sediments 

      Zhao, Rui; Mogollon, Jose M; Roerdink, Desiree Lisette; Thorseth, Ingunn Hindenes; Økland, Ingeborg Elisabet; Jørgensen, Steffen Leth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Energy/power availability is regarded as one of the ultimate controlling factors of microbial abundance in the deep biosphere, where fewer cells are found in habitats of lower energy availability. A critical assumption ...
    • Analysis of storm surge events along the Norwegian coast 

      Wolf, Tobias; Outten, Stephen; Mangini, Fabio; Chen, Linling; Nilsen, Jan Even Øie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-08)
      Observed extreme sea levels are caused by a combination of extreme astronomical tide and extreme storm surge, or by an extreme value in one of these variables and a moderate value in the other. We analyzed measurements ...
    • Anthropogenic and environmental drivers of vegetation change in southeastern Norway during the Holocene 

      ter Schure, Anneke Theresia Maria; Bajard, Manon Juliette Andree; Loftsgarden, Kjetil; Høeg, Helge Irgens; Ballo, Eirik Gottschalk; Bakke, Jostein; Støren, Eivind Wilhelm Nagel; Iversen, Frode; Kool, Anneleen; Brysting, Anne Krag; Krüger, Kirstin; Boessenkool, Sanne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Uncovering anthropogenic and environmental drivers behind past biological change requires integrated analyses of long-term records from a diversity of disciplines. We applied an interdisciplinary approach exploring effects ...
    • Application of Clumped Isotope Thermometry to Benthic Foraminifera 

      Piasecki, Alison; Bernasconi, Stefano M.; Grauel, Anna-Lena; Hannisdal, Bjarte; Ho, Sze Ling; Leutert, Thomas Jan; Marchitto, Thomas M.; Meinicke, Niklas; Tisserand, Amandine Aline; Meckler, Anna Nele (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04)
      Obtaining absolute temperatures of the ocean in deep time is complicated by the lack of constraints on seawater chemistry. Seawater salinity, carbonate ion concentration, δ18O, and elemental abundance changes may obscure ...
    • Application of in-situ gamma spectrometry for radiogenic heat production estimation in the Western Himalaya, Kohistan, and Karakoram in northern Pakistan 

      Anees, Muhammad; Kley, Jonas; Leiss, Bernd; Hindle, David; Wajid, Ali Abbas; Wagner, Bianca; Shah, Mumtaz M.; Luijendijk, Elco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Himalaya, Kohistan, and Karakoram ranges comprise Proterozoic to Cenozoic crystalline complexes exposed in northern Pakistan. Numerous hot springs in the area indicate high subsurface temperatures, prompting a need to ...
    • Architecture of growth basins in a tidally influenced, prodelta to delta-front setting: The Triassic succession of Kvalpynten, East Svalbard 

      Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra; Osmundsen, Per Terje; Braathen, Alvar; Ogata, Kei; Anell, Ingrid Margareta; Mulrooney, Mark Joseph; Zuchuat, Valentin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      World‐class examples of fault‐controlled growth basins with associated syn‐kinematic sedimentary fill are developed in Upper Triassic prodelta to delta‐front deposits exposed at Kvalpynten, SW Edgeøya in East Svalbard. ...
    • Architecture, deformation style and petrophysical properties of growth fault systems: the Late Triassic deltaic succession of southern Edgeøya (East Svalbard) 

      Ogata, Kei; Mulrooney, Mark; Braathen, Alvar; Maher, Harmon; Osmundsen, Per Terje; Anell, Ingrid Margareta; Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra; Balsamo, Fabrizio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-05-07)
      The Late Triassic outcrops on southern Edgeøya, East Svalbard, allow a multiscale study of syn‐sedimentary listric growth faults located in the prodelta region of a regional prograding system. At least three hierarchical ...
    • Arctic Holocene proxy climate database – New approaches to assessing geochronological accuracy and encoding climate variables 

      Sundqvist, H.S.; Kaufmann, Darrell; MaKay, Nickholas; Axford, Y.; Balascio, Nickholas; Briner, Jason P.; Cwynar, L.C.; Sejrup, Hans Petter; Subetto, D.A.; Andrews, J.T.; Bakke, Jostein; Birks, Harry John Betteley; Brooks, S.J.; Vernal, A.E.; Jennings, A.E.; Ljungvist, K.M.; Rûhland, K.M.; Saenger, C.; Smol, J.P.; Viau, A.E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-29)
      We present a systematic compilation of previously published Holocene proxy climate records from the Arctic. We identified 170 sites from north of 58° N latitude where proxy time series extend back at least to 6 cal ka (all ...
    • Arctic hydroclimate variability during the last 2000 years: Current understanding and research challenges 

      Linderholm, Hans W.; Nicolle, Marie; Francus, Pierre; Gajewski, Konrad; Helama, Samuli; Korhola, Atte; Solomina, Olga; Yu, Zicheng; Zhang, Peng; D'Andrea, William J.; Debret, Maxime; Divine, Dmitry V; Gunnarson, Björn E.; Loader, Neil J.; Massei, Nicolas; Seftigen, Kristina; Thomas, Elizabeth K.; Werner, Johannes; Andersson, Sofia; Berntsson, Annika; Luoto, Tomi P.; Nevalainen, Liisa; Saarni, Saija; Väliranta, Minna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-04-10)
      Reanalysis data show an increasing trend in Arctic precipitation over the 20th century, but changes are not homogenous across seasons or space. The observed hydroclimate changes are expected to continue and possibly ...