Palaeoslides and other mass failures of the Pliocene to Pleistocene age along the Atlantic continental margin of NW Europe

• Published in: Marine and Petroleum Geology
• Main Authors: Evans, D., Harrison, Z., Shannon, P.M., Laberg, J.S., Nielsen, T., Ayers, S., Holmes, R., Hoult, R.J., Lindberg, B., Haflidason, H., Long, D., Kuijpers, A., Andersen, E.S., Bryn, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2005
• Subjects: Lofoten; Storegga; Barra; Rockall Bank; Faroes
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18691/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18691/1/Abstract.pdf; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02648172

A number of pre-Holocene submarine mass-failure events of various sizes have been recognised within the Plio-Pleistocene succession along the European margin from Lofoten to Porcupine. These may occur as canyon or debris-flow deposits, but especially as slumps and slides that may be either buried wi...