DTI Strategic Environmental Assessment Area 4 (SEA4) : geological evolution Pilot Whale Diapirs and stability of the seabed habitat

• Main Authors: Holmes, R., Hobbs, P.R.N., Leslie, A.B., Wilkinson, I.P., Gregory, F.J., Riding, J.B., Hoult, R.J., Cooper, R., Jones, S.M.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: British Geological Survey 2003
• Subjects: Fugloy; Fugloy*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/509851/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/509851/1/CR03082N.pdf; http://webservices.bgs.ac.uk/sea/documents/64

The DTI 2002 programme of new deep-water seabed multibeam and sample data acquisition in SEA4 included surveys of a field of seabed mud mounds, collectively named the Pilot Whale Diapirs. The largest of these occur over a buried anticline and they are set in sediment debris flows that originated fro...