Lars Eivind Augland

• Król, Piotr; Kusiak, Monika A.; Dunkley, Daniel J.; Whitehouse, Martin J.; Wilde, Simon A. & Augland, Lars Eivind (2023). The record of geological processes in zircon from polymetamorphosed orthogneisses from the Napier Mountains, Napier Complex, East Antarctica. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences. ISSN 1345-6296. 118. doi: 10.2465/JMPS.230419.
• Rogov, M.A.; Panchenko, I.V.; Augland, Lars Eivind; Ershova, V.B. & Yashunsky, V.Yu. (2023). The first CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb dating of the Tithonian/Berriasian boundary beds in a Boreal succession. Gondwana Research. ISSN 1342-937X. 118, p. 165–173. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2023.02.010.
• Zhou, Haoyang; Müller, Axel; Augland, Lars Eivind; Kristoffersen, Magnus & Erambert, Muriel (2022). Titanite links rare-element (meta-)pegmatite mineralization to Caledonian metamorphism. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. ISSN 0016-7037. 332, p. 285–306. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.06.014. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Axel; Romer, Rolf L.; Augland, Lars Eivind; Zhou, Haoyang; Rosing-Schow, Nanna & Spratt, John [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). Two-stage regional rare-element pegmatite formation at Tysfjord, Norway: implications for the timing of late Svecofennian and late Caledonian high-temperature events. International journal of earth sciences. ISSN 1437-3254. 111, p. 987–1007. doi: 10.1007/s00531-022-02166-5. Full text in Research Archive
• Bakhsh, Rami A.; Ali, Kamal A.; Zoheir, Basem A.; Augland, Lars Eivind; Ahmed, Ahmed H. & Stein, Holly Jayne (2022). Geochemical and geochronological constraints on the gold-sulfide mineralization and host granitoid rocks in the Bulghah and Al-Maham prospects, central Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. ISSN 1367-9120. 223. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.105004.
• Warvik, Kenneth; Ringstad, Håkon Blaker; Augland, Lars Eivind; Corfu, Fernando & Gabrielsen, Roy Helge (2021). The Revsegg and Kvitenut allochthons, Scandinavian Caledonides: origins and evolution in the Caledonian Wilson cycle. Journal of the Geological Society. ISSN 0016-7649. 179(3). doi: 10.1144/jgs2021-062.
• Bastos, Lucas Pinto Heckert; Rodrigues, René; Pereira, Egberto; Bergamaschi, Sergio; Alferes, Carmen Lucia Ferreira & Augland, Lars Eivind [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2021). The birth and demise of the vast epicontinental Permian Irati-Whitehill sea: Evidence from organic geochemistry, geochronology, and paleogeography. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. ISSN 0031-0182. 562. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110103.
• Zuchuat, Valentin; Sleveland, Arve; Twitchett, Richard; Svensen, Henrik; Turner, Holly & Augland, Lars Eivind [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2020). A new high-resolution stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental record spanning the End-Permian Mass Extinction and its aftermath in central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. ISSN 0031-0182. 554. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109732. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Research on the Permian-Triassic boundary (PTB) along the northern margins of Pangaea (exposed today in the Arctic region) has been heavily reliant on field observations, where data resolution was consequently determined by outcrop condition and accessibility. Core drilling in central Spitsbergen allowed for a near-complete recovery of two ~90 m cores through the PTB. Analyses of the core and nearby outcrops include stratigraphic logging and sampling, XRF scanning, petrography, biostratigraphy, isotope geochemistry, and geochronology. The First Appearance Datum (FAD) of H. parvus in Svalbard places the base of the Triassic ca. 4 m above the base of the Vikinghøgda Formation, and ca. 2.50 m above the End-Permian Mass Extinction (EPME) and its associated sharp negative δ13C. The PTB therefore falls within the Reduviasporonites chalastus Assemblage Zone in Svalbard. Precise U-Pb TIMS dating of two zircon crystals in a tephra layer just above the first documented Hindeodus parvus in Svalbard gives an age of 252.13 ± 0.62 Ma. High-resolution palaeoenvironmental proxies, including Si/kcps (kilo counts per second), Zr/Rb, K/Ti, Fe/K, and V/Cr, indicate a transition towards a more arid climate in the earliest Triassic, contemporaneous with prolonged bottom-water dysoxic/anoxic conditions, following an increase in volcanic activity in the Late Permian. Statistical analysis of Zr/Rb, K/Ti and V/Cr elemental ratios suggests that the system was impacted by long-eccentricity (400 kyr) cyclicity. The δ13C excursion in organic carbon (δ13Corg) record signals a large negative carbon isotope excursion (CIE) associated with the mass extinction event, but also records a second, smaller negative CIE ca. 22 m above this interval. This younger δ13Corg excursion correlates to similar CIEs in the Dienerian (late Induan) records of other sections, notably in the Tethys Ocean, which have been interpreted as recording a small biotic crisis during the post-extinction recovery. Evidence of this negative CIE in Spitsbergen suggests that the Dienerian crisis may have been global in extent. The negative δ13Corg values are associated with evidence for dysoxia or anoxia in the core, and the occurrence of tephra layers in the same interval suggests a possible connection between the Dienerian crisis and a discrete episode of volcanic activity.

• Dalslåen, Bjørgunn Heggem; Gasser, Deta; Grenne, Tor; Augland, Lars Eivind & Andresen, Arild (2020). Early - Middle Ordovician sedimentation and bimodal volcanism at the margin of Iapetus: the Trollhøtta–Kinna Basin of the central Norwegian Caledonides. Geological Society Special Publication. ISSN 0305-8719. 503, p. 251–277. doi: 10.1144/SP503-2020-37. Full text in Research Archive
• Dalslåen, Bjørgunn Heggem; Gasser, Deta; Grenne, Tor; Augland, Lars Eivind & Corfu, Fernando (2020). Ordovician shoshonitic to ultrapotassic volcanism in the central Norwegian Caledonides: The result of sediment subduction, mantle metasomatism and mantle partial melting. Lithos. ISSN 0024-4937. 356-357. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105372. Full text in Research Archive
• Lundmark, Anders Mattias; Augland, Lars Eivind & Jørgensen, Simen V. (2020). Digital fieldwork with Fieldmove - how do digital tools influence geoscience students’ learning experience in the field? Journal of Geography in Higher Education. ISSN 0309-8265. 44(3), p. 427–440. doi: 10.1080/03098265.2020.1712685. Full text in Research Archive
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Ryabov, Viktor V.; Vernikovsky, Valery A.; Planke, Sverre; Polozov, Alexander & Callegaro, Sara [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2019). The main pulse of the Siberian Traps expanded in size and composition. Scientific Reports. ISSN 2045-2322. 9. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-54023-2. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Emplacement of large volumes of (sub)volcanic rocks during the main pulse of the Siberian Traps occurred within <1 m.y., coinciding with the end-Permian mass extinction. Volcanics from outside the main Siberian Traps, e.g. Taimyr and West Siberia, have since long been correlated, but existing geochronological data cannot resolve at a precision better than ~5 m.y. whether (sub)volcanic activity in these areas actually occurred during the main pulse or later. We report the first high precision U-Pb zircon geochronology from two alkaline ultramafic-felsic layered intrusive complexes from Taimyr, showing synchronicity between these and the main Siberian Traps (sub)volcanic pulse, and the presence of a second Dinerian-Smithian pulse. This is the first documentation of felsic intrusive magmatism occurring during the main pulse, testifying to the Siberian Trap’s compositional diversity. Furthermore, the intrusions cut basal basalts of the Taimyr lava stratigraphy hence providing a minimum age of these basalts of 251.64 ± 0.11 Ma. Synchronicity of (sub)volcanic activity between Taimyr and the Siberian Traps imply that the total area of the Siberian Traps main pulse should include a ~300 000 km2 area north of Norilsk. The vast aerial extent of the (sub)volcanic activity during the Siberian Traps main pulse may explain the severe environmental consequences.

• Jochmann, Malte Michel; Augland, Lars Eivind; Lenz, Olaf; Bieg, Gerd; Haugen, Turid & Grundvåg, Sten-Andreas [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2019). Sylfjellet: a new outcrop of the Paleogene Van Mijenfjorden Group in Svalbard. Arktos. ISSN 2364-9453. doi: 10.1007/s41063-019-00072-w. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  A hitherto unrecognized Paleogene outcrop has been discovered at Sylfjellet, a mountain located at the northern side of Isfjorden, Svalbard. The strata, which cover an area of 0.8 km2, have until now been assigned to the Lower Cretaceous succession of the Adventdalen Group. In this study, the Sylfjellet site was studied in detail to provide an updated structural and sedimentological description of strata and lithostratigraphy. The age and burial history of the investigated succession were constrained by absolute (U/PB) and relative dating methods in addition to vitrinite reflectance analyses of coal seams. The results show a Paleogene age of the deposits, which is supported by the occurrence of an angiosperm pollen grain, plant macrofossils, and a tephra layer of early Selandian age (61.53 Ma). The 250 m-thick succession of Sylfjellet is assigned to the Firkanten, Basilika and Grumantbyen formations. This succession unconformably overlies the Lower Cretaceous Helvetiafjellet Formation. Sylfjellet is incorporated into the West Spitsbergen Fold-and-Thrust Belt and interpreted to be a fourth structural outlier of the Van Mijenfjorden Group. Vitrinite reflectance data indicate that at least 2000 m overburden has been eroded above the Sylfjellet coal seams, and that maximum burial of the strata predates folding and thrusting in the area.

• Ballo, Eirik Magnus Gottschalk; Augland, Lars Eivind; Hammer, Øyvind & Svensen, Henrik (2019). A new age model for the Ordovician (Sandbian) K-bentonites in Oslo, Norway. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. ISSN 0031-0182. 520, p. 203–213. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.016. Full text in Research Archive
• Svensen, Henrik; Jerram, Dougal Alexander; Polozov, Alexander; Planke, Sverre; Neal, Clive R. & Augland, Lars Eivind [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2019). Thinking about LIPs: A brief history of ideas in Large igneous province research. Tectonophysics. ISSN 0040-1951. 760, p. 229–251. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.12.008. Full text in Research Archive
• Lundmark, Anders Mattias; Augland, Lars Eivind & Bjerga, Audun Dalene (2019). Timing of strain partitioning and magmatism in the Scottish Scandian collision, evidence from the high Ba–Sr Orkney granite complex. Scottish Journal of Geology. ISSN 0036-9276. 55(1), p. 21–34. doi: 10.1144/sjg2018-001. Full text in Research Archive
• Jannin, Sophie; Gervais, Felix; Moukhsil, Abdelali & Augland, Lars Eivind (2018). Late-Grenvillian channel flow in the central Grenville Province (Manicouagan Reservoir area): New constraints from a structural and geochronological study of the Allochthon Boundary Thrust. Journal of Structural Geology. ISSN 0191-8141. 115, p. 132–151. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2018.07.019.
• Svensen, Henrik; Torsvik, Trond Helge; Callegaro, Sara; Augland, Lars Eivind; Heimdal, Thea Hatlen & Jerram, Dougal Alexander [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2018). Gondwana large igneous provinces: plate reconstructions, volcanic basins and sill volumes. In: Large Igneous Provinces from Gondwana and Adjacent Regions. Geological Society Special Publication. ISSN 0305-8719. 463, p. 17–40. doi: 10.1144/SP463.7.
• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Augland, Lars Eivind; Shephard, Grace; Burgess, Seth; Eliassen, Gauti Trygvason & Jochmann, Malte [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2017). Constraining shifts in North Atlantic plate motions during the Palaeocene by U-Pb dating of Svalbard tephra layers. Scientific Reports. ISSN 2045-2322. 7(1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-06170-7. Full text in Research Archive
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Moukhsil, Abdelali & Solgadi, Fabien (2017). Mantle influence of syn-to late Grenvillian alkaline magmatism in the Grenville Province: causes and implications. Canadian journal of earth sciences (Print). ISSN 0008-4077. 54(3), p. 263–277. doi: 10.1139/cjes-2016-0135.
• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Trygvason Eliassen, Gauti; Shephard, Grace; Svensen, Henrik; Jochmann, Malte & Friis, Bjarki [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2016). Provenance of bentonite layers in the Palaeocene strata of the Central Basin, Svalbard: implications for magmatism and rifting events around the onset of the North Atlantic Igneous Province. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. ISSN 0377-0273. 327, p. 571–584. doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.09.014.
• Augland, Lars Eivind & David, Jean (2015). Protocrustal evolution of the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt as determined by high precision zircon Lu–Hf and U–Pb isotope data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. ISSN 0012-821X. 428, p. 162–171. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.07.039. Show summary

  The Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (NSB) in northern Quebec, Canada, represents one of the oldest known crustal fragments preserved in the Earth's crust. Its age has, however, been disputed and different authors present crustal formation ages varying from ca. 3.8 Ga to 4.4 Ga (e.g. O'Neil et al., 2012 and Guitreau et al., 2013). Here we report new high precision U–Pb geochronological and coupled Lu–Hf isotope data from zircons that reveal the age of the NSB and provide new constraints on the source rocks to this piece of early crust. Two rocks have been analysed, a felsic schist, interpreted to represent a volcanite, and a mylonitic tonalite that is intrusive into the NSB. The felsic schist was emplaced at 3771+5/−3 Ma, dating the formation of the NSB. The Lu–Hf model age indicates that the parental melt to the felsic schist was extracted from the mantle at this age or within a few tens of million years, but no more than 300 m.y., before its extrusion. This mantle extraction age provides an absolute maximum age for the NSB, but the most probable age of its protocrust is ca. 3.8 Ga. The mylonitic tonalite was emplaced at 3667+3/−1 Ma. Its Lu–Hf isotopic composition reveals the presence of an older crustal component than that of the NSB, requiring that its precursor melt formed from a Hadean source that was older than the NSB. Based on recent models for Archean TTG formation, we propose that this source represents re-melted Hadean hydrated crust that must have been translated below the NSB at ca. 3667 Ma.

• Augland, Lars Eivind; Moukhsil, Abdlali; Solgadi, Fabien & Indares, Aphrodite (2015). Pinwarian to Grenvillian magmatic evolution in the central Grenville Province-new constraints from ID-TIMS U-Pb ages and coupled Lu-Hf S-MC-ICP-MS data. Canadian journal of earth sciences (Print). ISSN 0008-4077. 52(9), p. 701–721. doi: 10.1139/cjes-2014-0232. Show summary

  Understanding the magmatic evolution of the rocks once comprising the hinterland of the Grenville Orogen through their Mesoproterozoic formation is a key to understanding the Grenvillian Orogeny as a whole. In this contribution, we present high-precision isotope dilution thermal ionization mass spectrometry (ID–TIMS) U–Pb and coupled solution multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (S–MC–ICP–MS) Lu–Hf zircon data from magmatic rocks occurring in the allochthonous belt of the Grenville Orogen in the central part of the Grenville Province. We document the presence of a large tract of Pinwarian crust represented by a 1497 ± 5 Ma granitic gneiss, as well as large late Geon 14 to early Geon 13 (1434 +7/−11, 1413 ± 12, 1393 ± 8, 1383 ± 1 Ma) magmatic complexes. One Grenvillian plutonic suite of 1015 ± 2 Ma that cross-cuts the host-rock metamorphic fabric has also been dated. This age provides a minimum age of Ottawan metamorphism in the region. The Hf-isotopic data show that the magmatic rocks of Geons 14 and 13 had mixed mantle and crustal sources compatible with intrusion in a supra-subduction setting as is also supported by the whole-rock geochemical data presented. Emplacement of the magmatic rocks occurred in settings varying from a distal margin arc to a contractional and extensional continental arc. Grenvillian-aged magmatism is more ambiguous, but our data indicate that rocks as young as ca. 1015 Ma may have formed in an ensialic setting.

• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild; Gasser, Deta & Steltenpohl, Mark G. (2014). Early Ordovician to Silurian evolution of exotic terranes in the scandinavian caledonides of the Ofoten-Troms area-terrane characterization and correlation based on new U-Pb zircon ages and Lu-Hf isotopic data. Geological Society Special Publication. ISSN 0305-8719. 390(1), p. 655–678. doi: 10.1144/SP390.19.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild; Corfu, Fernando; Agyei-Dwarko, Nana Yaw & Larionov, Alexander (2014). The Bratten-Landegode gneiss complex - a fragment of Laurentian continental crust in the Uppermost Allochthon of the Scandinavian Caledonides. Geological Society Special Publication. ISSN 0305-8719. 390(1), p. 633–654. doi: 10.1144/SP390.1.
• Agyei-Dwarko, Nana Yaw; Augland, Lars Eivind & Andresen, Arild (2012). The Heggmovatn supracrustals, North Norway-A late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic (1050-930 Ma) terrane of Laurentian origin in the Scandinavian Caledonides. Precambrian Research. ISSN 0301-9268. 212-213, p. 245–262. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.06.008.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild; Corfu, Fernando; Simonsen, Siri Lene & Andersen, Tom (2012). The Beiarn Nappe Complex: A record of Laurentian Early Silurian arc magmatism in the Uppermost Allochthon, Scandinavian Caledonides. Lithos. ISSN 0024-4937. 146, p. 233–252. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.05.016.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild; Corfu, Fernando & Daviknes, Hans Kristian (2012). Late Ordovician to Silurian ensialic magmatism in Liverpool Land, East Greenland: new evidence extending the northeastern branch of the continental Laurentian magmatic arc. Geological Magazine. ISSN 0016-7568. 149(4), p. 561–577. doi: 10.1017/S0016756811000781.
• Lundmark, Anders Mattias; Andresen, Arild; Hasan, M.A.; Augland, Lars Eivind & Boghdady, G.Y. (2012). Repeated magmatic pulses in the East African Orogen in the Eastern Desert, Egypt: An old idea supported by new evidence. Gondwana Research. ISSN 1342-937X. 22(1), p. 227–237. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.08.017.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild & Boghdady, Gamal (2012). U-Pb ID-TIMS dating of igneous and metaigneous rocks from the El-Sibai area: time constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Central Eastern Desert, Egypt. International journal of earth sciences. ISSN 1437-3254. 101(1), p. 25–37. doi: 10.1007/s00531-011-0653-3.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild & Corfu, Fernando (2011). Terrane transfer during the Caledonian orogeny: Baltican affinities of the Liverpool Land Eclogite Terrane in East Greenland. Journal of the Geological Society. ISSN 0016-7649. 168(1), p. 15–26. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492010-093.
• Andresen, Arild; Augland, Lars Eivind; Boghdady, GY; Lundmark, Anders Mattias; Elnady, O.M. & Hassan, M.A. [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2010). Structural constraints on the evolution of the Meatiq Gneiss Dome (Egypt), East-African Orogen. Journal of African Earth Sciences. ISSN 0899-5362. 57(5), p. 413–422. doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.11.007.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild & Corfu, Fernando (2010). Age, structural setting, and exhumation of the Liverpool Land eclogite terrane, East Greenland Caledonides. Lithosphere. ISSN 1941-8264. 2(4), p. 267–286. doi: 10.1130/L75.1.

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• Gasser, Deta; Meyer, Gurli Birgitte; Ksienzyk, Anna Katharina; Ofstad, Frode; Augland, Lars Eivind & Slagstad, Trond [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2023). The Grønfjellet unit – an alkaline volcanic complex of uncertain tectonic affiliation in the eastern Trondheim Nappe Complex.
• Ryen, Sofie Hildegard; Lundmark, Anders Mattias & Augland, Lars Eivind (2023). The imbricate fans of Huk, Oslo.
• Zuchuat, Valentin; Augland, Lars Eivind; Jones, Morgan Thomas; Sleveland, Arve R.N.; Twitchett, Richard & Tovar, Francisco J Rodríguez [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2022). The Permian-Triassic boundary across the Barents Shelf: an intricate record of climate change, mass extinction, recovery, and basin reorganisation. EGU General Assembly. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-2379.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Lundmark, Anders Mattias; Rian, Maiken Thorvaldsen & Jerram, Dougal Alexander (2022). Non-dissolved mantle zircons record hyper rapid translithospheric ascent of lamprophyres.
• Ryen, Sofie Hildegard; Lundmark, Anders Mattias & Augland, Lars Eivind (2022). How Caledonian structures camouflage as Permo-Carboniferous structures in the Oslo Region, Norway.
• Svebo, Joachim Røed; Lundmark, Anders Mattias & Augland, Lars Eivind (2022). Deciphering the setting of volcaniclastic and effusive Devonian magmatism in the Orcadian basin, Orkney Islands, Scotland.
• Zuchuat, Valentin; Augland, Lars Eivind; Jones, Morgan Thomas; Twitchett, Richard; Rodríguez-Tovar, Francisco J. & Hammer, Øyvind [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2021). Facies changes, volcanism, and mass extinction conundrum: the Permian-Triassic boundary across the Barents Sea Shelf. Show summary

  The most dramatic mass extinction the Earth has ever experienced occurred 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian. It was likely triggered by the volcanic eruptions and magmatic intrusions associated with the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province (LIP), leading to dramatic climatic changes, with consequences lasting well into the Early Triassic. Here, we present a summary of the findings from the study of several sedimentary successions distributed across the Barents Sea that spanned the End Permian Mass Extinction (EPME) and the Permian-Triassic boundary. The four studied successions included the renowned Festningen section in the outer part of Isfjorden, western Spitsbergen; the DD-1 core and the associated river section in Deltadalen, central Spitsbergen; a core drilled offshore Kvitøya in northern Svalbard, and a core drilled on the Horda Platform in the Barents Sea. Datasets of various research lines were collected from these sections including sedimentology, organic geochemistry, isotope, geochronology, XRF, mineralogy, ichnology, palaeontology, palynology and digital outcrop data. Historically, the Permian-Triassic boundary exposed today in Svalbard (and at various places across the High Arctic regions) was placed at the very prominent and abrupt facies change occurring between the siliceous mudstones or spiculites of the Kapp Starostin Formation, and the overlying soft, non-siliceous mudstones and siltstones of the Vardebukta and Vikinghøgda formations. The abruptness of this facies change, which also marks the demise of sponges, led to the belief that it represented a hiatus or a gap of several million years, with the uppermost Permian strata missing from the sedimentary record, while the mudstones of the Vardebukta and Vikinghøgda formations were definitely of Lower Triassic age, based on ammonoid biostratigraphy. Hindeodus parvus, the conodont that defines the base of the Triassic, was for the first time identified in Svalbard a few meters above the lithostratigraphic boundary, which is therefore of Upper Permian age. Additionally, our new data show that sedimentation was continuous across this lithostratigraphic boundary. This transition from the Kapp Starostin Formation to the Vardebukta and Vikinghøgda formations was accompanied by a major reorganisation/inversion of the basin(s), but its exact nature remains puzzling. Further, all measured sections record the EPME, which is associated with a 6-8 ‰ δ13CVPDB negative excursion, and measured between the lithostratigraphic and the Permian-Triassic boundaries. These negative isotopic excursions are found in close vicinity to several tephra layers that have been precisely dated at 252.13 ± 0.62 Ma, strongly suggesting a connection to the Siberian Traps LIP event. The mass extinction is also confirmed by the very rapid decreasing of trace fossil abundance and diversity, as anoxia spread across the water from proximal and shallow water to deeper settings. Geochemical and ichnological data indicate the occurrence of several anoxic pulses, intersected by very brief episodes of improved oxygenation levels. It took ca. 145 Kyr for life to recover after the extinction event, based on sedimentation rate calculations. Data also suggest that a shift towards more arid climatic conditions and increased eutrophication on land accompanied the EPME.

• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Stokke, Ella Wulfsberg; Augland, Lars Eivind; Svensen, Henrik; Pogge von Strandmann, Philip A.E. & Rooney, Alan (2020). Constraining the activity of the North Atlantic Igneous Province across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary.
• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Stokke, Ella Wulfsberg; Augland, Lars Eivind; Pogge von Strandmann, Philip A.E.; Liu, Emma J. & Mather, Tamsin [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2020). Constraining North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP) activity during the late Paleocene and early Eocene.
• Dalslåen, Bjørgunn Heggem; Gasser, Deta; Grenne, Tor; Andresen, Arild; Augland, Lars Eivind & Corfu, Fernando (2020). Tectonic evolution of Ordovician-Silurian rocks in the Oppdal area, southern Trondheim Nappe Complex.
• Ryen, Sofie Hildegard; Lundmark, Anders Mattias & Augland, Lars Eivind (2020). Investigating Tear Faults in the Oslo Region.
• Gasser, Deta; Grenne, Tor; Dalslåen, Bjørgunn Heggem; Corfu, Fernando; Augland, Lars Eivind & Bøe, Reidulv [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2019). Contemporaneous MORB-type and extremely enriched volcanic rocks in the central Scandinavian Caledonides: the effect of slab break-off after arc-continent collision and/or subduction initiation after polarity flip? .
• Grenne, Tor; Gasser, Deta; Corfu, Fernando; Augland, Lars Eivind; Bøe, Reidulv & Slagstad, Trond (2019). The Hølonda and Ilfjellet volcano-sedimentary basins of the central Norwegian Caledonides: Early/Middle Ordovician response to ophiolite obduction, subduction initiation and continental-arc establishment.
• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Stokke, Ella Wulfsberg; Pogge von Strandmann, Philip A.E.; Augland, Lars Eivind; Svensen, Henrik & Whiteside, Jessica H. [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2019). ASHLANTIC: A multi-proxy approach to understanding the relationship between the NAIP and the PETM.
• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Stokke, Ella Wulfsberg; Pogge von Stradmann, Philip; Augland, Lars Eivind; Svensen, Henrik & Whiteside, Jessica H. [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2019). Ashlantic: A multi-proxy approach to understanding the relationship between the North Atlantic Igneous Province and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
• Jochmann, Malte Michel; Augland, Lars Eivind; Lenz, Olaf; Bieg, Gerd; Haugen, Turid & Grundvåg, Sten-Andreas [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2019). Revised stratigraphy of Sylfjellet, Svalbard: a new contribution to the Paleogene Van Mijenfjorden Group. Show summary

  The strata of Sylfjellet, a mountain located on the northern side of Isfjorden, central Spitsbergen, have so far been solely assigned to the Lower Cretaceous (Harland et al., 1997; Braathen et al., 1999; Bergh et al., 2003,). The strata are incorporated in the Eurekan West Spitsbergen Fold and Thrust Belt (WSFTB) (Braathen et al., 1999; Dallmann, 2015, Piepjohn et al., 2016). Recent stratigraphic studies of the succession of presumable Early Cretaceous age suggested the presence of Paleogene strata. Thus, we revisited the site in order to find evidence for a Paleogene age of the strata. The outcomes of this study are presented here. The area was mapped and the c. 250 m thick succession was logged. Samples were collected for both absolute (U/PB) and relative (palynological) dating methods. In addition, coal seams were analysed for vitrinite reflectance, allowing us to analyse the strata in a broader geological context. Our findings show that parts of the investigated strata at Sylfjellet are of Paleogene age. The mapped succession was assigned to the Van Mijenfjorden Group and comprises the Firkanten, Basilika and Grumantbyen formations. They directly overlie Lower Cretaceous strata with a sedimentary contact. Since the strata are situated within the WSFTB, they represent a third tectonic outlier of the Van Mijenfjorden Group in Svalbard, in addition to the previously described Ny-Ålesund Subgroup and the Øyrlandet Graben deposits in southern Spitsbergen (Harland et al., 1997; Dallmann et al., 1999;). Our stratigraphic revision of the Sylfjellet succession has several implications for the interpretation of the Paleogene depositional history and the interplay between Eocene sedimentation and tectonics. Vitrinite reflection data indicates that an Upper Eocene or Oligocene age for the Aspelintoppen Formation is precluded, or that alternatively an Upper Eocene/Oligocene folding and thrusting event must have taken place in this area. Bergh, S., Ohta, Y., Andresen, A., Maher, H., Braathen, A. & Dallmann, W. (2003). Geological Map of Svalbard, 1: 100 000 Sheet B8G St. Jonsfjorden. Norsk Polarinstitutt Temakart (34). Braathen, A., Bergh, S., Karlsen, F., Maher, H., Andresen, A., Hansen, A.-I. & Bergvik, A. (1999). Kinematics of the Isfjorden-Ymerbukta Fault Zone: a dextral oblique-thrust ramp in the Tertiary fold-thrust belt of Spitsbergen. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 79, 227–240. Dallmann, W. K. (editor), International Stratigraphic Committee for Svalbard (1999). Lithostratigraphic lexicon of Svalbard. Review and recommendations for nomenclature use. Upper Palaeozoic to Quaternary bedrock. Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway, 318 pages. Dallmann, W. K. (editor) (2015). Geoscience Atlas of Svalbad. Norwegian Polar Institute Report Series No 148, Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway, 292 pages. Harland, W. B., Anderson, L. M., Manasrah, D. & Butterfield, N. J. (1997). The Geology of Svalbard. Geological Society, London, Memoir No. 17, 521 pages. Piepjohn, K., von Gosen, W. & Tessensohn, F. (2016). The Eurekan deformation in the Arctic: an outline. Journal of the Geological Society, 173, 1007–1024.

• Gasser, Deta; Grenne, Tor; Augland, Lars Eivind & Corfu, Fernando (2019). The Støren Group of the Trondheim Nappe Complex revisited: rift-related early/middle Ordovician volcanism and turbidite sedimentation at the onset of westward subduction? .
• Dalslåen, Bjørgunn Heggem; Gasser, Deta; Grenne, Tor; Augland, Lars Eivind & Corfu, Fernando (2019). The origin of Th-enriched volcanic rocks in Oppdal, central Norwegian Caledonides – implications for the evolution of Ordovician arc magmatism.
• Svebo, Joachim Røed; Lundmark, Anders Mattias & Augland, Lars Eivind (2019). High precision dating of the Devonian Hoy volcanics, Orkney, northern North Sea, and its implications.
• Dalslåen, Bjørgunn Heggem; Gasser, Deta; Grenne, Tor; Augland, Lars Eivind; Corfu, Fernando & Andresen, Arild (2018). Chemistry, age and tectonic evolution of the western Trondheim Nappe Complex in the Oppdal area, Central Norway.
• Lundmark, Anders Mattias; Augland, Lars Eivind & Jørgensen, Simen Varkøy (2018). How do digital tools influence geoscience students learning experience in the field?
• Svensen, Henrik; Jerram, Dougal Alexander; Polozov, Alexander; Jones, Morgan Thomas; Augland, Lars Eivind & Planke, Sverre (2018). Volcanic causes for the PETM and other past hothouse climates.
• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Stokke, Ella Wulfsberg; Schultz, Bo; Augland, Lars Eivind; Planke, Sverre & Tegner, Christian [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2018). Fur Island in Denmark: A window into Paleocene-Eocene hyperthermals and North Atlantic volcanism.
• Jerram, Dougal Alexander; Svensen, Henrik; Planke, Sverre; Millett, John M; Jones, Morgan Thomas & Augland, Lars Eivind [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2018). Types and styles of volcanism in the North Atlantic Igneous Province: Implications towards understanding their potential climatic impact.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Lundmark, Anders Mattias & Bjerga, Audun Dalane (2018). Early mid-Devonian volcanism dates initiation of the Orcadian basin in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
• Lundmark, Anders Mattias; Augland, Lars Eivind & Bjerga, Audun Dalane (2018). Syn-collisional Scandian extension and magmatism on the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
• Gasser, Deta; Grenne, Tor & Augland, Lars Eivind (2017). The enigmatic Gula Complex of the central Norwegian Caledonides: new constraints on age and origin from zircon dating and geochemistry.
• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Augland, Lars Eivind; Shephard, Grace; Burgess, Seth; Eliassen, Gauti & Jerram, Dougal Alexander [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2017). Bentonite layers in Svalbard: constraining sources of volcanism, geochronology, and relative plate motions during the Paleogene.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Jones, Morgan Thomas; Svensen, Henrik & Planke, Sverre (2016). Improving the geochronology of the North Atlantic Igneous Province. largeigneousprovinces.org.
• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Augland, Lars Eivind; Burgess, Seth; Eliassen, Gauti; Svensen, Henrik & Jerram, Dougal Alexander [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2016). Bentonite layers in Svalbard: constraining sources of volcanism, geochronology, and relative plate motions during the Paleocene and Eocene.
• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Augland, Lars Eivind; Tegner, Christian; Planke, Sverre; Jerram, Dougal Alexander & Callegaro, Sara [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2016). Volcano-climate interactions during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Assessing the impact of the North Atlantic Igneous Province from the Fur Formation, Denmark.
• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Augland, Lars Eivind; Svensen, Henrik; Tegner, Christian; Planke, Sverre & Willumsen, Pi Suhr (2016). Volcano-climate interactions during the PETM and U-Pb dating from the Fur Formation, Denmark.
• Planke, Sverre; Zuchuat, Valentin; Svensen, Henrik; Hammer, Øyvind; Braathen, Alvar & Silkoset, Petter [Show all 27 contributors for this article] (2016). Coring and High-Resolution Imaging of the Permian-Triassic Boundary in Deltadalen, Svalbard.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Jones, Morgan Thomas; Svensen, Henrik & Tegner, Christian (2016). Closing in on the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the North Atlantic: chronostratigraphy and ash bed provenance through high precision U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic analyses of zircons.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Jones, Morgan Thomas; Planke, Sverre; Svensen, Henrik & Tegner, Christian (2016). Evaluating the provenance of Permian-Triassic and Palaeocene-Eocene ash beds by high precision U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic analyses of zircons: linking local sedimentary records to global events.
• Gasser, Deta; Grenne, Tor; Corfu, Fernando & Augland, Lars Eivind (2016). Characterization of depositional age and structure of sedimentary successions by U-Pb TIMS and LA-ICP-MS dating of volcanic horizons and detrital zircons: an example from the western Trondheim Nappe Complex, Scandinavian Caledonides.
• Jones, Morgan Thomas; Eliassen, Gauti Trygvason; Burgess, Seth; Augland, Lars Eivind; Svensen, Henrik & Planke, Sverre [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2015). Palaeocene-Eocene volcanism in the Arctic: Basin development and continental breakup constrained by ash layers in Svalbard.
• Planke, Sverre; Twitchett, Richard; Zuchuat, Valentin; Svensen, Henrik; Hammer, Øyvind & Braathen, Alvar [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2015). Coring the Permian-Triassic Boundary in Deltadalen, Svalbard.
• Steltenpoh, M.; Andresen, Arild; Augland, Lars Eivind; Prouty, J. & Corfu, Fernando (2014). Implications of Laurentian Grenville crust in the northern Scandinavian Caledonides.
• Steltenpohl, Mark G.; Andresen, Arild; Augland, Lars Eivind & Agyei-Dwarko, Nana Yaw (2014). Implications of Laurentian Grenville crust in the northern Scandinavian Caledonides.
• Andresen, Arild; Agyei-Dwarko, Nana Yaw; Steltenpohl, Mark G. & Augland, Lars Eivind (2014). Terranes within the Arctic Caledonides and their constraints on Early Paleozoic orogenic evolution.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild & Steltenpohl, Mark G. (2013). U-Pb ID-TIMS zircon ages and coupled Lu-Hf S-ICP-MS data - A tool for terrane characterisation and determination of paleogeopgraphic affinities: An example from the Caledonides.
• Buchanan, John; Bowman, Dannena; Steltenpohl, Mark G.; Hames, Willis; Augland, Lars Eivind & Andresen, Arild (2012). 40Ar/39Ar muscovite thermochronology and structural evolution of southern Liverpool Land, East Greenland.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Prouty, Jonathan; Corfu, Fernando; Andresen, Arild; Agyei-Dwarko, Nana Yaw & Steltenpohl, Mark G. (2012). Intercontinental interactions: Laurentian crustal pieces in the northern Scandinavian Caledonides.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild; Corfu, Fernando; Simonsen, Siri Lene & Andersen, Tom (2012). The Beiarn Nappe Complex: a record of Laurentian Early Silurian arc magmatism in the Uppermost Allochthonon, Scandinavian Caledonides.
• Andresen, Arild; Augland, Lars Eivind; Moecher, David; Richarde, Gabriel; Bruechner, Hannes & Ravna, Erling J Krogh (2012). P-T-t constraints on subduction and exhumation of the Liverpool Land Eclogite Terrane (LLET), East Greenland Caldonides.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Prouty, Jonathan; Corfu, Fernando; Andresen, Arild; Agyei-Dwarko, Nana Yaw & Steltenpohl, Mark G. (2011). Intercontinental interactions: Laurentian crustal pieces in the northern Scandinavian Caledonides.
• Andresen, Arild; Agyei-Dwarko, Nana Yaw; Augland, Lars Eivind & Andersen, Tom (2011). Source areas for post-Caledonian sedimentary basin deposits in the North Atlantic region: How diagnostic are they?
• Andresen, Arild; Augland, Lars Eivind & Agyei-Dwarko, Nana Yaw (2011). The Landegode-Heggmovatn “basement terranes” – fragments of the Laurentian Grenville Orogen in the Scandinavian Caledonides?
• Moecher, David; Richarde, Gabriel; Andresen, Arild & Augland, Lars Eivind (2011). Keeping it hot but not too heavy:Low pressure eclogite with a granulite facies overprint in Liverpool Land, East Greenland Caledonides.
• Lamminen, Jarkko Tapani; Andresen, Arild & Augland, Lars Eivind (2011). The provenance signature of the Liverpool Land Eclogite Terrane, East Greenland: implications for provenance studies in the North Atlantic Region. Abstracts and Proceedings of the Geological Society of Norway. 1.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild & Agyei-Dwarko, Nana (2011). The Bodø-Landegode Gneiss Complex: an exotic Neoproterozoic terrane in the Caledonides of Northern Norway. Abstracts and Proceedings of the Geological Society of Norway. 1.
• Agyei-Dwarko, Nana Yaw; Andresen, Arild & Augland, Lars Eivind (2011). The Heggmovatn "Basement Dome", Nordland: a Caledonian thrust sheet of Laurentian origin. NGF abstracts and proceedings. 1, p. 1–1.
• Andresen, Arild; Lundmark, Anders Mattias & Augland, Lars Eivind (2010). The East African Orogen viewed from Egypt.
• Andresen, Arild; Agyei-Dwarko, Nana & Augland, Lars Eivind (2010). New data on basement-cover relationships in the Bodø-Sulitjelma area, North Norwegian Caledonides. NGF abstracts and proceedings. 1, p. 8–9.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild & Corfu, Fernando (2010). The-Mid-Silurian Beiarn magmatic complex: a clue tonorthward-younging subduction along Laurentia`s North-Easter nmargin. NGF abstracts and proceedings. 1.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild & Corfu, Fernando (2010). Laurentian and Baltican crust juxtaposed in LiverpoolLand, East Greenland. NGF abstracts and proceedings. 1, p. 10–11.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild & Corfu, Fernando (2010). A Baltican ancestry of the Liverpool Land eclogite terrane, East Greenland. Geophysical Research Abstracts. ISSN 1029-7006. 12(EGU2010-10534).
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild & Corfu, Fernando (2010). A Baltican ancestry of the Liverpool Land eclogite terrane, East Greenland.
• Prouty, Jonathan M.; Augland, Lars Eivind; Agyei-Dwarko, Nana Yaw; Andresen, Arild & Steltenpohl, Mark G. (2010). Basement-cover relations in the Norwegian Celedonides between 67o and 69o N latitudes.
• Lundmark, Anders Mattias; Andresen, Arild; Augland, Lars Eivind & Andersen, Tom (2009). The Neoproterozoic East African Orogen viewed from the Eastern Desert, Egypt: an ID-TIMS age and in situ LA-ICPMS Hf isotopic study. NGF abstracts and proceedings. 1, p. 67–67.
• Andresen, Arild; Lundmark, Anders Mattias & Augland, Lars Eivind (2009). New U-Pb ages and Hf-isotope data on selected plutons from the Central Eastern Desert, Egypt.
• Andresen, Arild; Augland, Lars Eivind & Lundmark, Anders Mattias (2009). The Eastern Desert Shear Zone: Age and tectonic significance.
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild & Corfu, Fernando (2009). The Caledonian Liverpool Land Eclogite Terrane, East Greenland: Baltic basement "orphaned" in Laurentia?
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild & Corfu, Fernando (2009). From Late Ordovician-Silurian Arc Magmatism to Devonian Terrane Amalgamation and Juxtaposition of Baltican and Laurentian Crust: New Evidence from Liverpool Land, East Greenland Caledonides.
• Buchanan, John; Augland, Lars Eivind; Steltenpohl, Mark G. & Andresen, Arild (2007). Structural and petrological framework of a Caledonian eclogite terrane within the southern Liverpool Land, East Greenland. Abstracts with programs (Geological Society of America). ISSN 0016-7592. 39(6).
• Augland, Lars Eivind; Andresen, Arild; Corfu, Fernando; Buchanan, John & Steltenpohl, Mark G. (2007). The Liverpool Land Eclogite Terrane - A piece of Baltica within the East Greenland Caledonides. Abstracts with programs (Geological Society of America). ISSN 0016-7592. 39(6).

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