A new high-resolution stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental record spanning the End-Permian Mass Extinction and its aftermath in central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

• Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Main Authors: Zuchuat, Valentin, Sleveland, Arve, Twitchett, Richard, Svensen, Henrik, Turner, Holly E, Augland, Lars Eivind, Jones, Morgan Thomas, Hammer, Øyvind, Hauksson, Bjarki, Haflidason, Haflidi, Midtkandal, Ivar, Planke, Sverre
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Vikinghøgda; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/81143; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-84246; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109732

Research on the Permian-Triassic boundary (PTB) along the northern margins of Pangaea (exposed today in the Arctic region) has been heavily reliant on field observations, where data resolution was consequently determined by outcrop condition and accessibility. Core drilling in central Spitsbergen al...