Characterization of a glacial paleo-outburst flood using high-resolution 3-D seismic data: Bjørnelva River Valley, SW Barents Sea

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Bellwald, Benjamin, Planke, Sverre, Polteau, Stephane, Lebedeva-Ivanova, Nina, Faleide, Jan Inge, Zengaffinen-Morris, Sunniva Margrethe, Morse, Stephen, Castelltort, Sébastien
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Barents Sea; Glacial Lake; Greenland; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Journal of Glaciology; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/84507; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-87273; https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.115

Abstract Proglacial braided river systems discharge large volumes of meltwater from ice sheets and transport coarse-grained sediments from the glaciated areas to the oceans. Here, we test the hypothesis if high-energy hydrological events can leave distinctive signatures in the sedimentary record of...