RADIOCARBON DATED COMMON MUSSELS MYTILUS-EDULIS FROM EASTERN SVALBARDAND THE HOLOCENE MARINE CLIMATIC OPTIMUM

Authors
HJORT C MANGERUD J ADRIELSSON L BONDEVIK S LANDVIK JY SALVIGSEN O
Citation
C. Hjort et al., RADIOCARBON DATED COMMON MUSSELS MYTILUS-EDULIS FROM EASTERN SVALBARDAND THE HOLOCENE MARINE CLIMATIC OPTIMUM, Polar research, 14(2), 1995, pp. 239-243
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary",Oceanografhy
Journal title
Polar research → ACNP
ISSN journal
08000395
Volume
14
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
239 - 243
Database
ISI
SICI code
0800-0395(1995)14:2<239:RDCMMF>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
The common mussel Mytilus edulis is an indicator of milder marine cond itions in the Arctic, with stronger Atlantic Water influx, during the Holocene and earlier interglacials. Twelve Holocene radiocarbon dates of Mytilus from eastern Svalbard fall between ca 8800 and 5000 BP and roughly delimit the marine climatic optimum period there. The beginnin g of this period in the east coincides with the immigration of boreal extralimital molluscs to western Svalbard, indicating the culmination of Holocene Atlantic influence.