Scientific Publications - Surtsey Basalt
Published scientific results describing young Surtsey basalt.
Material and mechanical properties of young basalt in drill cores from the oceanic island of Surtsey, Iceland.
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Authigenic mineralization in Surtsey basaltic tuff deposits 50 years after eruption.
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Basaltic glass alteration in the Surtsey hydrothermal system.
The mobility of elements in altered basaltic volcanic glass and the bulk basaltic rock records interactions with fluids that change over time.
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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!
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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 Bergsten and other scientists examined the diversity, distribution, and abundance of microorganisms in subaerial and submarine pyroclastic rocks and fluids from Surtsey.
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Mineral Growth in Submarine 1979 Surtsey Basalt Drill Core
The thermal, chemical, and mineralogical evolution of basaltic rocks and the physical properties Earth’s oceanic and continental crust are fundamentally linked. To better understand the evolution of basalt alteration over short geologic timescales, we turn to a newly formed volcanic island, Surtsey, in southern Iceland.
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 interaction of young basalt with seawater influences the elemental budget of the oceanic crust.
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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 orientation of layering in the basaltic lapilli tuff traversed by the inclined SE-03 borehole.
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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 alteration of the basalt in the 1979 core repository.
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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 alteration style with depth in the volcano. Journal of Volcanological and Geothermal Research.
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