Eruption age of the Sverrefjellet volcano, Spitsbergen Island, Norway

Treiman, Allan H.; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8073-2839

Eruption age of the Sverrefjellet volcano, Spitsbergen Island, Norway

Treiman, Allan H.; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8073-2839

URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11753/1509

Date: 2012-03-02

Abstract:

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, consistent with Ar-Ar isochron and plateau ages of several analysed samples.

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