Middle Miocene magmatic activity in the Sophia Basin, Arctic Ocean – evidence from dredged basalt at the flanks of Mosby Seamount

• Main Authors: Geissler, Wolfram, Estrada, Solveig, Riefstahl, Florian, O'Connor, John, Spiegel, Cornelia, Van den Boogard, Paul, Klügel, Andreas
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Fram Strait; Svalbard; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45003/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51664

The area to the northwest of Svalbard was affected by repeated tectono-magmatic processes starting from the Cretaceous formation of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province, to Late Cretaceous/early Cenozoic birth of the Eurasian Basin towards the establishment of a full seafloor-spreading regime alon...