The polar oceans - selected publications

Arctic Ocean: Tectonic, paleoceanographic and climate history

• Kristoffersen, Y., and Talwani, M., 1977:
  Extinct triple junction south of Greenland and the Tertiary motion of Greenland relative to North America. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 88: 1037- 1049.
• Cande, S., and Kristoffersen, Y., 1977:
  Late Cretaceous magnetic anomalies in the North Atlantic. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 35: 215-224.
• Kristoffersen, Y., 1978:
  Sea floor spreading and the early opening of the North Atlantic. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 38: 273-290.
• Hunkins, K., Kristoffersen, Y., Johnson, G.L., and Heiberg, A., 1979:
  The FRAM-I Expedition. Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 60: 1043-1044.
• Bungum, H, and Kristoffersen, Y., 1980:
  A microearthquake survey of the Svalbard region. Final report, Phase I. Norsar Tech. report 1/80, 28 p.
• Kristoffersen, Y., Husebye, E.S., Bungum, H., and Gregersen, S., 1982:
  Seismic investigations of the Nansen Ridge during the FRAM-I experiment. Tectonophysics, 82: 57-68.
• Bungum, H., Mitchell, B., and Kristoffersen, Y., 1982:
  Concentrated earthquake zones on Svalbard. Tectonophysics, 82: 175-188.
• Kristoffersen, Y., 1982:
  The Nansen Ridge, Arctic Ocean: some geophysical observations of the rift valley at slow spreading rate. Tectonophysics, 89: 161-172.
• Kristoffersen, Y., and Husebye, E.S., 1985:
  Multichannel seismic reflection measurements in the Eurasia Basin, Arctic Ocean, from U.S. ice station FRAM-IV. Tectonophysics, 114: 03-117.
• Husebye, E.S., Johnson, G.L., and Kristoffersen, Y., 1985:
  Editors, Geophysics of the Polar Regions. Proc. IUGG Symposium on Geophysics and Geology of the Polar Regions, Hamburg, 1983. Tectonophysics, 114: 1-470.
• Kristoffersen, Y., 1985:
  Barentshavet. Temakart nr. 1, Norsk Polarinstitutt.
• Thiede, J., Johnson, G.L., Kristoffersen, Y., Blasco, S., and Mayer, L., 1988:
  Deep Sea Drilling in the Ice-covered Arctic: Scientific, Environmental, Technical and Political Challenge. In: R. Wolfrum (ed), Antarctic Challenge III: Conflicting Interests, Cooperation, Environmental Protection, Economic Development. Proc. Interdisiplinary Symp. July 7-12, 1987, Kiel. Dunker & Humbolt, Berlin, p. 563-582.
• Kristoffersen, Y., 1990:
  On the evolution and significance of the Fram Strait gateway. In: U. Bleil and J. Thiede (eds.), Geologic History of the Polar Oceans: Arctic versus Antarctic. Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 63- 76.
• Sobczak, L.W., Hearty, D.B., Forsberg, R., Kristoffersen, Y., Eldholm, 0., and May, S.D., 1990:
  Gravity from 84 N to the North Pole. In: A. Grantz, J. Sweeney, and G.L. Johnson (eds.), The Arctic Region, Am. Geol. Soc. Decade of North Am. Geol. vol., L, p.101-118.
• Kristoffersen, Y., 1990:
  Eurasia Basin. In: A. Grantz, J. Sweeney, and G.L. Johnson (eds.), The Arctic Region, Am. Geol. Soc. Decade of North Am. Geol. vol., L, p. 365-378.
• Nansen Arctic Drilling Program Science Committee (Y.K. member), 1992:
  The Arctic Ocean Record: Key to Global Change. Polarforschung, 61: 1-102.
• Jokat, W., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Kristoffersen, Y., and Rasmussen, T., 1992:
  Lomonosov Ridge - a double-sided continental margin. Geology, 20: 887-890.
• Kristoffersen, Y., Backman, A., Brass, G., 1992:
  Logistics of scientific drilling in the Arctic Ocean: station-keeping test opens new perspectives. The Nansen Icebreaker, 3: 1
• Jokat, W., Weigelt, E., Kristoffersen, Y., Rasmussen, T., and Sch0ne, T., 1995:
  New insights into the evolution of the Lomonosov Ridge and the Eurasia Basin. Geophys. Jour. Int., 122: 378-392.
• Jokat, W., Weigelt, E., Kristoffersen, Y., Rasmussen, T., and Sch0ne, T., 1995:
  New geophysical results from the southwestern Eurasia Basin and the Fram Strait. Geophys. Jour. Int., 123: 601-610.
• Kristoffersen, Y., and Backman, J., 1996:
  "Oden" conducts pilot drilling in the Arctic. The Nansen Icebreaker 9/96.
• Kristoffersen, Y., 1997:
  A pilot project for shallow drilling in the Arctic Ocean. Yearbook 1995/96, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, p. 72-74.
• Kristoffersen, Y., 1997:
  Seismic reflection surveys during Arctic Ocean-96. Yearbook 1995/96, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, p. 75-77.
• Kristoffersen, Y., 1998.
  New consept for drilling rig evolves. The Nansen Icebreaker, 10: 1.
• Kristoffersen, Y.:
  The Eurasia Basin: an Update from a Decade of Geoscientific Research. Polarforschung, 68: 11-18.
• Kristoffersen, Y., 2001.
  An ODP-site survey on Lomonosov Ridge during Arctic Ocean 2001. Swedish Polar Secretariat Yearbook 2001: 64-66.
• Jakobsson, M., Grantz, A., Kristoffersen, Y., and Macnab, R., 2003.
  Physiographic provinces of the Arctic Ocean seafloor. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 115:1443-1455.
• Kristoffersen, Y., Sorokin, M., Jokat, W., Svendsen, O., 2004.
  A submarine fan in the Amundsen Basin, Arctic Ocean. Mar. Geol., 204: 317-324.
• Kristoffersen, Y., Coakley, B., Jokat, W., Edwards, M., Brekke, H., Gjengedal, J., 2004.
  Seabed erosion on the Lomonosov Ridge, central Arctic Ocean: A tale of deep draft icebergs in the Eurasia basin and the influence of Atlantic water inflow on iceberg motion? Paleoceanography, 19, PA3006, doi: 10.1029/2003PA000985.
• Kristoffersen, Y., Mikkelsen, N., (eds), 2004.
  Scientific drilling in the Arctic Ocean and the site survey challenge:
  Tectonic, paleoceanographic and climatic evolution of the Polar Basin. JEODI Workshop, Copenhagen, January 2003. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Special Publication, 81 pp. http://www.geus.dk/program-areas/nature-environment/international/reports/
• Kristoffersen, Y. Mikkelsen, N., 2006.
  On sediment deposition and nature of the plate boundary at the junction between the submarine Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Ocean and the continental margin of Arctic Canada/North Greenland. Marine Geology, 225:265-278.
• Moran, K. plus 36 incl. Kristoffersen, Y., 2006.
  The Cenozoic palaeo environment of the Arctic Ocean. Nature, vol. 441/1 June 2006/doi:10.1038/nature04800.
• Kristoffersen, Y., Coakley, B., Hall, J.K.,Edwards, M., 2007.
  Mass wasting on the submarine Lomonosov Ridge, central Arctic Ocean. Marine Geology, 243: 132-142.

Antarctica: Tectonic, paleoceanographic and climate history

• Kristoffersen, Y., and Bungum, H., 1981: A microearthquake survey of Bouvet Island, South Atlantic. Tectonophysics, 82: T1- T5.
• Hinz, K., and Kristoffersen, Y., 1987:
  Antarctica - Recent advances in understanding of the continental shelf. Geol. Jahrbuch, Reihe E, Heft 37,54 p.
• Ciesielski, P., Kristoffersen. Y and Leg 114 Shipboard Scientific Party:
  Paleoceanography of the subantarctic South Atlantic. Nature, 328: 671-672.
• Kristoffersen, Y., and Aalerud, J., 1988:
  Aeromagnetic reconnaissance over the Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. Polar Research, 6: 123-128.
• Ciesielski, P., Kristoffersen, Y., et al., 1988:
  Proc. ODP Initial Reports Leg 114, volume A; College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 811 pp.
• Haugland, K., Kristoffersen, Y., and Velde, A., 1985:
  Seismic investigations in the Weddell Sea Embayment. Tectonophysics, 114: 293-315.
• Kristoffersen, Y., and Haugland, K., 1986:
  Geophysical evidence for the Gondwana plate boundary in the southeastern Weddell Sea. Nature, 332: 538-541.
• Ciesielski, P. and Y. Kristoffersen et al., ODP Leg 114 Scientific Results, volume B; College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 600 pp.
• Kristoffersen, Y., and Labrecque, J., 1991:
  On the tectonic history of the Northeast Georgia Rise, South Atlantic. In:
  P. Ciesielski and Y. Kristoffersen et al., ODP Leg 114 Scientific Results, volume B; College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), p. 23-39.
• Raymond, C., LaBrecque, J., and Kristoffersen, Y., 1991:
  Islas Orcadas Rise and Meteor Rise: the tectonic and depositional history of two aseismic plateaus from Sites 702, 703, and 704 (synthesis). In:
  P. Ciesielski and Y. Kristoffersen et al., ODP Leg 114 Scientific Results, volume B; College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), p. 5-22.
• Kristoffersen, Y., and Hinz, K., 1991:
  Evolution of the Gondwana plate boundary in the Weddell Sea. In: M.R. Thomson (ed), Geological Evolution of Antarctica. Proc. 5the Int. Antarctic Symp., Cambridge Univ. Press, 225-230.
• Kuvaas, B. and Kristoffersen, Y., 1991:
  The Crary Fan: a trough-mouth fan on the Weddell Sea continental margin, Antarctica. Marine Geology, 97: 345-362.
• Barker, P., Barrett, P., Camerlenghi, A., Cooper, A., Davey, F., Domack, E., Escutia, C., Kristoffersen, Y., and O`Brien, P., 1999:
  Antarctic Ice Sheet history from continental margin sediments: the ANTOSTRAT approach. Terra Antarctica, 5: 737-760.
• Kristoffersen, Y., Winterhalter, B., and Solheim, A., 2000:
  Shelf progradation on a glaciated continental margin, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Marine Geology, 165: 109-122.
• Kristoffersen, Y., Strand, K., Vorren, T., Harwood, D., and Webb, P., 2000:
  Pilot shallow drilling on the continental shelf, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science,12: 463-470.
• Kuvaas, B., Kristoffersen, Y., Leitchenkov, G., Guseva, J., and Gandjukhin, V., 2004:
  Seismic expression of deep-marine deposits attributed to glacial sediment flux in the eastern Riser-Larsen Sea, Antarctica. Mar. Geol., 207, 1-15.
• Kuvaas, B., Kristoffersen, Y., Guseva, J., Leitchenkov, G., Gandjukhin, V., Løvås, O., Sand, M., Brekke, H., 2005. Interplay of turbidite and contourite deposition along the Cosmonaut Sea/Enderby Land margin, East Antarctica, Mar. Geol., 217: 143-159.
• Kuvaas, B., Kristoffersen, Y., Guseva, J., Leitchenkov, G., Gandjukhin, V., and G. Kudryavtsev, 2005.
  Input of glaciomarine sediments along the East Antarctic continental margin; depositional processes on the Cosmonaut Sea continental slope and rise and a regional acoustic stratigraphic correlation from 40º W to 80º E. Mar.Geophys. Res., 25: 247-263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11001-005-1321-4
• Rogenhagen, J., Jokat, W., Hinz, K., and Kristoffersen, Y., 2005.
  Improved seismic stratigraphy of the Mesozoic Weddell Sea. Mar. Geophys. Res., 25: 265-282. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11001-005-1335-y