Dinocyst stratigraphy of the Valanginian to Aptian succession (the Rurikfjellet and Helvetiafjellet formations) from Spitsbergen, Norway

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Authors: Śliwińska, Kasia, Jelby, Mads, Grundvåg, Sten-Andreas, Nøhr-Hansen, N., Alsen, P, Olaussen, Snorre
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2020
• Subjects: VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Stratigraphy and paleontology: 461; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Stratigrafi og paleontologi: 461; Agardhfjellet; Arctic; Bohemanflya; Helvetiafjellet; Myklegardfjellet; Norway; Rurikfjellet; Ullaberget; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/20567; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756819001249

In order to improve the understanding of how the high northern latitudes responded to the escalating warming which led to the middle Cretaceous super greenhouse climate, more temperature proxy records from the High Arctic are needed. One of the current obstacles in obtaining such records is poor age...