The aqueous fluid-like and melt-like components are termed as shallow and deep subduction components, respectively (Pearce et al. 2005), and the latter is attributed to sediment-derived melts or supercritical fluids (Elliott et al. 1997; Hanyu et al. 2012).
According to Haq et al. (1987), relative fall in the global sea level has been reported during the Early Miocene which can broadly be attributed to the sediment progradation seen in U3b.
This low resistivity values could be attributed to loosely bonded sediments and probably conductive fluids and clay minerals (with anomalously low resistivity values of less than 65 Ωm).
Decreased antibiotic sorption may be attributed to association of sediments with OM from manure components (ammonia N-containing soluble hydrocammonia N-containing acidsoluble[53, 54], and N-hydrocarbons hydrocarbonsuchch as pyrrols, methylindols, aminoitrogen bacids[55]).
The high load of DMS(P) in Balsfjord's sediments could neither be attributed to local vertical sedimentation nor to short-term lateral advection of fresh DMSP-containing phytoplanktonic material, and provides indication that this tracer sometimes also can be misleading.
Our analysis reveals that the existence of multiple time scales in sediment transport processes may be attributed to the fractal nature in sediment transport.
The derived E values of PCBs and DDXs in the PV8C sediment were consistently smaller than those in the PV6C sediment, which may be attributed to the higher OC content in the PV8C sediment (3.54%) as compared to that in the PV6C sediment (2.34%).
Compared to the continental shale lithofacies, the marine shale lithofacies was characterized by a higher proportion of siliceous shale lithofacies group and a lower proportion of argillaceous shale lithofacies group, which could be attributed to different sedimentary environments and sediment provenances.
The recorded lithic artefacts, which eroded out of the sediments, can be attributed to the Middle Stone Age (MSA).
The difference in frictional properties between the two sediments can be attributed to a difference in smectite content that potentially controls deformation processes during fault zone shearing.
In the present study, initially higher percent removal of phosphate could be attributed to higher activity of plants and sediments in the initial phase as reported in other studies too (Haritash et al. 2015).
