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Henrik Svensen

Henrik Svensen

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Earth Science

D-Index
52
Citations
10624
World Ranking
3022
National Ranking
37

Overview

Henrik Svensen is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Geophysics, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, and Geology.

Their research primarily covers topics including Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and Mercury impact and mitigation studies.

Svensen has published in a number of notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, and Climate of the Past.

Recent papers include:

  • A nutrient control on marine anoxia during the end-Permian mass extinction, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Mercury evidence for combustion of organic-rich sediments during the end-Triassic crisis, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Determining the style and provenance of magmatic activity during the Early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE 1a), 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • Temperature changes across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum - a new high-resolution TEX86 temperature record from the Eastern North Sea Basin, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Assessing the importance of thermogenic degassing from the Karoo Large Igneous Province (LIP) in driving Toarcian carbon cycle perturbations, 2021, Nature Communications

Svensen has collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Sverre Planke, Morgan T. Jones, Tamsin A. Mather, Ella W. Stokke, and Stéphane Polteau.

Best Publications

  • Release of methane from a volcanic basin as a mechanism for initial Eocene global warming

    Henrik Svensen;Sverre Planke;Anders Malthe-Sørenssen;Bjørn Jamtveit

  • Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian environmental crisis

    Henrik Svensen;Sverre Planke;Alexander G. Polozov;Alexander G. Polozov;Norbert Schmidbauer

  • Hydrothermal venting of greenhouse gases triggering Early Jurassic global warming

    Henrik Svensen;Sverre Planke;Luc Chevallier;Anders Malthe-Sørenssen

  • Triggering and dynamic evolution of the LUSI mud volcano, Indonesia

    A. Mazzini;H. Svensen;G.G. Akhmanov;Giovanni Aloisi

  • Rapid magma emplacement in the Karoo Large Igneous Province

    Henrik Svensen;Fernando Corfu;Stéphane Polteau;Øyvind Hammer

  • Mud and fluid migration in active mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan

    S. Planke;H. Svensen;M. Hovland;D. A. Banks

  • Complex pockmarks with carbonate-ridges off mid-Norway: Products of sediment degassing

    Martin Hovland;Henrik Svensen;Carl Fredrik Forsberg;Harald Johansen

  • How contact metamorphism can trigger global climate changes: Modeling gas generation around igneous sills in sedimentary basins

    Ingrid Aarnes;Henrik Svensen;James A.D. Connolly;Yuri Y. Podladchikov

  • Hydrothermal vent complexes associated with sill intrusions in sedimentary basins

    Bjørn Jamtveit;Henrik Svensen;Yuri Y. Podladchikov;Sverre Planke

  • U–Pb geochronology of Cretaceous magmatism on Svalbard and Franz Josef Land, Barents Sea Large Igneous Province

    Fernando Corfu;Stéphane Polteau;Sverre Planke;Jan Inge Faleide

  • Contact metamorphic devolatilization of shales in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, and the effects of multiple sill intrusions

    Ingrid Aarnes;Henrik Svensen;Stephane Polteau;Sverre Planke

  • Submarine pingoes: Indicators of shallow gas hydrates in a pockmark at Nyegga, Norwegian Sea

    Martin Hovland;Henrik Svensen

  • Climatic and societal impacts of a volcanic double event at the dawn of the Middle Ages

    Matthew Toohey;Matthew Toohey;Kirstin Krüger;Michael Sigl;Michael Sigl;Frode Stordal

  • Strike-slip faulting as a trigger mechanism for overpressure release through piercement structures. Implications for the Lusi mud volcano, Indonesia

    A. Mazzini;A. Nermoen;M. Krotkiewski;Y. Podladchikov

  • Formation of saucer-shaped sills

    A. Malthe-Sørenssen;S. Planke;H. Svensen;B. Jamtveit

  • Structure and evolution of hydrothermal vent complexes in the Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Henrik Svensen;BjØrn Jamtveit;Sverre Planke;Luc Chevallier

  • The Early Cretaceous Barents Sea Sill Complex: Distribution, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, and implications for carbon gas formation

    Stéphane Polteau;Bart W.H. Hendriks;Sverre Planke;Morgan Ganerød

  • When mud volcanoes sleep: insight from seep geochemistry at the Dashgil mud volcano, Azerbaijan

    A. Mazzini;H. Svensen;S. Planke;I. Guliyev

  • Thermogenic methane release as a cause for the long duration of the PETM

    Joost Frieling;Henrik H. Svensen;Sverre Planke;Margot J. Cramwinckel

  • Multistage Evolution of Dolerites in the Karoo Large Igneous Province, Central South Africa

    Else-Ragnhild Neumann;Henrik Svensen;Christophe Y. Galerne;Christophe Y. Galerne;Sverre Planke

  • The effects of large igneous provinces on the global carbon and sulphur cycles

    Morgan T. Jones;Dougal A. Jerram;Dougal A. Jerram;Henrik H. Svensen;Clayton Grove

Frequent Co-Authors

Sverre Planke
Sverre Planke University of Oslo
Dougal A. Jerram
Dougal A. Jerram University of Oslo
Adriano Mazzini
Adriano Mazzini University of Oslo
Bjørn Jamtveit
Bjørn Jamtveit University of Oslo
Fernando Corfu
Fernando Corfu University of Oslo
Øyvind Hammer
Øyvind Hammer University of Oslo
Jan Inge Faleide
Jan Inge Faleide University of Oslo
Yuri Y. Podladchikov
Yuri Y. Podladchikov University of Lausanne
Christian Tegner
Christian Tegner Aarhus University
Else-Ragnhild Neumann
Else-Ragnhild Neumann University of Oslo

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