Evaluating The Controls On The Physical Properties Of The Dogger Bank Formation ...

• Main Author: Blacker, Kieran J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Leicester 2024
• Subjects: Uncategorized; Dogger Bank; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.25061564; https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Evaluating_The_Controls_On_The_Physical_Properties_Of_The_Dogger_Bank_Formation/25061564

The Dogger Bank is a large shallow topographic feature in the Central North Sea with water depths of 18 – 63m. As one of the proposed round 3 windfarm licence areas an extensive siteinvestigation was undertaken during 2010 and 2011 across Tranche A including extensive 2Dultra high resolution reflection seismic surveys, over 100 geotechnical boreholes, cone penetration tests, 15 wireline log boreholes and more. To adequately plan the location, type and cost of foundation installation an understanding of the physical and geotechnical property distribution of the area is necessary. This thesis demonstrates that these properties, whilst complex and often times difficult to tease out of the data, can be linked to geological processes and thus predicted with some confidence away from control points. During relatively recent geological history (100 – 19 kyrs BP) The Dogger Bank was dynamically shaped by the Eurasian Ice Sheet, and at least two hypothesised glacial cycles led to deformation, deposition and ...