Age and extent of the Yermak Slide north of Spitsbergen, Arctic Ocean

• Published in: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
• Main Authors: Winkelmann, Daniel, Jokat, Wilfried, Niessen, Frank, Stein, Rüdiger, Winkler, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Kapp Ekholm; Norway; Storegga; Svalbard; Ice Sheet; Sea ice; Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice sheet; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/13397/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GC001130; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.23781

The extent of the Yermak Slide has been revised on the basis of new acoustic and detailed bathymetric data. The true geometry, with an affected area of at least 10,000 km2 and more than 2400 km3 of involved sedimentary material, puts the Yermak Slide among the largest exposed submarine slides worldw...