New cold seep sites on the continental slope southwest to Svalbard

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Bellec, Valerie Karin, Chand, Shyam, Knies, Jochen Manfred, Bjarnadóttir, Lilja Rún, Lepland, Aivo, Sen, Arunima, Thorsnes, Terje
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media 2024
• Subjects: Hornsund; Svalbard; Storfjorden
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/33367; https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2024.1328357

We discovered seafloor features such as bacterial mats and carbonate crusts typical for active methane seeps on the continental slope southwest of Svalbard. These features are associated with two main northwest-southeast trending morphological structures that are oriented parallel to the regional co...