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

• Published in: arktos
• Main Authors: Geissler, Wolfram, Estrada, Solveig, Riefstahl, Florian, O'Connor, John, Spiegel, Cornelia, Van den Boogard, Paul, Klügel, Andreas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Svalbard; Yermak Plateau; Fram Strait; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/50505/; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41063-019-00066-8; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.24276dac-9b0a-4273-b341-5b126f98705a

The area to the northwest of Svalbard was repeatedly affected by tectono-magmatic events during the opening of the Arctic Ocean including the formation of the Cretaceous High Arctic Large Igneous Province, the Late Cretaceous/early Cenozoic birth of the Eurasian Basin, and the establishment of a ful...