Characterisation of palaeosols in the Lower Cretaceous Helvetiafjellet Formation, Svalbard. Palaeo-climatic implications

• Main Author: Tennvassås, Ingrid
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2018
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Petroleumsgeologi og -geofysikk: 464; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Petroleum geology and petroleum geophysics: 464; GEO-3900; Arctic; Glitrefjellet; Helvetiafjellet; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/12825

Although the Cretaceous period is known to have been dominated by greenhouse conditions, the Early Cretaceous climatic conditions in Svalbard have been under some debate. Both indicators of warm climate such as coal seams, Ornithopod tracks and warm-water dinoflagellates, and indicators of cold clim...