Eruption age of the Sverrefjellet volcano, Spitsbergen Island, Norway

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Treiman, Allan H., orcid:0000-0002-8073-2839
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2012
• Subjects: Spitsbergen Island (Norway); Volcanoes > Norway > Spitsbergen Island; Argon-argon dating; Norway; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Sverrefjellet; Polar Research; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11753/1509; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v31i0.17320

Sverrefjellet is a Pleistocene-age basaltic volcanic construct on north-western Spitsbergen Island (Svalbard Archipelago, Norway). Published ages for the Sverrefjellet eruption range between 6000 years and ca. 1 million years before present. The age of the eruption is dated here as 1.05±0.07 (1s) My...