Contrasting Along-Slope vs. Downslope Sedimentation Style on the High-Latitude Eastern Canadian Continental Margin During the Last 40 ka

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Harunur Rashid, Jianing He, Ranjan Patro, A. Owen Brown
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
• Subjects: sediment dynamics; Heinrich events; nepheloid-layer flow deposits; mud turbidites; Labrador Sea; Holocene; Science; Q; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel; Ice Sheet; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.873492; https://doaj.org/article/55cda5d158cb40e5a6edc2cbb2416cfe

Late Pleistocene Labrador Sea depositional systems developed in front of ice streams and glacier outlets from the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) are documented by Huntec and 3.5 kHz seismic profiles and piston cores. Due to efficient grinding by the LIS, massive amounts of fine-grained sediments and mel...