Any single layer is not laterally continuous for more than a few meters. Layering dips NNE typically at a shallow angle, but is locally moderately steep. Mafic layers are consistently more coarse-grained, and contain augite, inverted pigeonite, and orthopyroxene as subhedral crystals and crystal...
Syvertsen [1991] proposed that ice algae are “combed” or “sieved” from the water column by platelet ice crystals at the underside of the growing ice in the Barents Sea and thus become concentrated during the winter to produce an inoculum for the spring bloom. He suggested that the algae...