Category: Surtsey Basalt
Published scientific results describing young Surtsey basalt.
Culturable Bacterial Diversity from the Basaltic Subsurface of the Young Volcanic Island of Surtsey, Iceland
Measurements of the culturable microbial diversity from the basaltic subsurface of Surtsey isolated 195 strains of microorganisms representing 42 different genera! Read more about this paper. ... Read More
Basalt-Hosted Microbial Communities in the Subsurface of the Young Volcanic Island of Surtsey, Iceland
The SUSTAIN drilling project offers a unique opportunity for the study of microbial communities within the basalt of a very young oceanic island, 50 years after the eruptions terminated. Pauline Bergs... Read More
New insights into how the interaction of young basalt with seawater influences the elemental budget of the oceanic crust
Geochemical studies of the fluids filling two of the cased boreholes, 1979 (SE-01) and 2017 (SE-03), by Barbara Kleine and other geochemists at University of Iceland, gives new insights into how the i... Read More
New observations on the structure of Surtsey, Surtsey Research
Examination of the 2017 Surtsey drill cores by James G. Moore, one of the volcanologists who drilled Surtsey in 1979, offers new perspectives on heat sources for the hydrothermal system as well as the... Read More
Petrographic observations of Surtsey lapilli tuff, Surtsey Research
Microstructural features in thin sections of the 1979 and 2017 drill cores provide new insights into eruptive, microbial and alteration processes in Surtsey lapilli tuff – including possible alterat... Read More
Alteration progress in the Surtsey hydrothermal system
A comparative petrographic study of samples from drill cores recovered in 1979 and 2017 reveals time-lapse alteration that is characterized by the presence of mineral contents, alteration rates and al... Read More