Quaternary environmental change off northwest Svalbard

• Main Author: Gauti Trygvason Eliassen 1988-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Jarðfræði; Svalbarði; Loftslagsbreytingar; Umhverfisbreytingar; Kvartertímabilið; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Svalbard; East Greenland; east greenland current; Foraminifera*; Iceberg*; Magnetic susceptibility; north atlantic current; North Atlantic; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/13891

In 2005 the piston core JM05-030-PC2 was collected from the northwest continental slope of Svalbard, approx. 100km of the nortwest coast at water depths of 1073m. At the study site, the oceanographic system is dominated by two main currents; the East Greenland Current and the West Spitsbergen Curren...