Organic matter quantity, quality and sources were spatially and seasonally examined.
Well-marked glacier-outer fjord quantitative gradients of OM throughout all seasons
Spring events of surface primary production well recorded in sediments
Discrepancy between quantity and quality of the sedimentary OM within the fjord
Biogenic gradients influenced the prokaryotic distribution in the sediments.
Spatial variability prevailed over seasonal variability in Kongsfjorden's sediments.