A Continuous Seismostratigraphic Framework for the Western Svalbard-Barents Sea Margin Over the Last 2.7 Ma: Implications for the Late Cenozoic Glacial History of the Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Nikolitsa Alexandropoulou, Monica Winsborrow, Karin Andreassen, Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Pierre-Antoine Dessandier, Rune Mattingsdal, Nicole Baeten, Jochen Knies
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
• Subjects: chronostratigraphy; quaternary; glacial intensification; palaeo-ice streams; Trough-Mouth Fan; sedimentation rates; Science; Q; Svalbard; Barents Sea; Yermak Plateau; Bear Island; Sjubrebanken; Ice Sheet; Sea ice; Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice sheet; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.656732; https://doaj.org/article/0f0cbdc09b3845e08315ff9ffabf5092

Here we present a high-resolution, continuous seismostratigraphic framework that for the first time, connects the over 1,000 km long western Svalbard-Barents Sea margin and covers the last ∼2.7 million years (Ma). By exploiting recent improvements in chronology, we establish a set of reliable age fi...