The fate of the submarine ikaite tufa columns in southwest Greenland under changing climate conditions

• Main Authors: Hansen, MO, Buchardt, B, Kühl, M, Elberling, B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Geology; Greenland; Ikka
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18129

Ikaite is considered a metastable mineral forming and stable only at low temperatures and therefore an indicator of low-temperature carbonate precipitation often associated with cold marine seeps. It is found world-wide but most spectacularly in Ikka Fjord in southwest Greenland as submarine carbona...