- E-postLeif-Erik.Pedersen@uib.no
- BesøksadresseAllégaten 415007 BergenRom1G7e - 1001
- PostadressePostboks 78035020 Bergen
Research interests:
- Geochemistry - stable and radiogenic isotopes, alteration of oceanic crust.
- Geobiology - biosignatures (structural and chemical) in oceanic crust and other planets.
- 23-25.03.15. Geology Olympics at UIB. Responsible for teaching the participants geology in the field.
https://www.uib.no/en/course/GEOV241 - Microscopy - Lecturer
- Pedersen, L. E. R., McLoughlin, N., Vullum, P. E., & Thorseth, I. H. (2015). Abiotic and candidate biotic micro-alteration textures in subseafloor basaltic glass: A high-resolution in-situ textural and geochemical investigation. Chemical Geology, 410, 124-137. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.06.005
- Pedersen, L. E. R., Staudigel, H., McLoughlin, N., Whitehouse, M. J., & Strauss, H. (2017). A multiple sulfur isotope study through the volcanic section of the Troodos ophiolite. Chemical Geology, 468, 49-62. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.08.008
- (2023). Volcanic evolution of an ultraslow-spreading ridge. Nature Communications.
- (2023). Symplectite and kelyphite formation during decompression of mafic granulite from Gjelsvikfjella, central Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. European journal of mineralogy.
- (2022). Radiation damage allows identification of truly inherited zircon. Communications Earth & Environment.
- (2022). Provenance of the Middle Triassic Kobbe Formation in the SW Barents Sea.
- (2022). A Highly Depleted and Subduction-Modified Mantle Beneath the Slow-Spreading Mohns Ridge. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems.
- (2021). Reconstructing early Holocene seasonal bottom-water temperatures in the northern North Sea using stable oxygen isotope records of Arctica islandica shells. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 1-12.
- (2021). Provenance of the Middle Triassic Kobbe Formation in the SW Barents Sea – constraining the Fennoscandian sand and locating the mixing zone.
- (2020). Detrital zircon inventory of the Triassic Greater Barents Sea Basin: sediment transport and geodynamics.
- (2018). Biosignatures in the Oceanic Crust.
- (2017). A multiple sulfur isotope study through the volcanic section of the Troodos ophiolite. Chemical Geology. 49-62.
- (2015). Abiotic and candidate biotic micro-alteration textures in subseafloor basaltic glass: A high-resolution in-situ textural and geochemical investigation. Chemical Geology. 124-137.
- (2014). Geochemical constraints on alteration textures in the upper oceanic crust.
- (2014). A FIB-TEM study of alteration textures in altered seafloor pillow basalt.