Arctic volcanism in the Cretaceous

Fieldwork on Svalbard – searching for volcanic rocks in -10 C. People: Sverre and Ellen Planke, Stephane Polteau and Ivar Midtkandal.

We have a new paper out in Geological Magazine that presents new U-Pb ages of sills and tuff from Svalbard and Franz Josef Land. You can read the abstract below. The picture shows the fieldwork we did on Svalbard in April 2010.