The Hinlopen/Yermak Megaslide (north of Svalbard, Arctic Ocean): Size, Timing and Dynamic of an exceptional Submarine Slide

• Main Authors: Winkelmann, Daniel, Stein, Rüdiger
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Svalbard; Barents Sea; Kapp Ekholm; Hinlopen Trough; Ice Sheet; Sea ice; Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice sheet; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/16990/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/16990/1/Win2007e.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.26828; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.26828.d001

With increasing interest in slope stability issues on continental shelves the causes and trigger mechanism of submarine slides get more andmore into the scientific focus. The Hinlopen/Yermak Megaslide constitutes an exceptional retrogressive submarine slide on the continental margin north of Spitsbe...