Comparison of mass wasting processes on the slopes of the Rockall trough, northeast Atlantic

• Main Authors: Georgiopoulou, Aggeliki, Benetti, Sara, Shannon, Patrick M., Sacchetti, Fabio, Haughton, Peter D.W., Comas-Bru, Laia, Krastel, Sebastian
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2014
• Subjects: Glacial environment; Scarp; Slope failure; Statistical comparison; Submarine landslide; Rockall Bank; Rockall Trough; Ice Sheet; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/publications/7144427e-3f6c-4e39-8019-d755ae75bc43; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8_42; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019573888&partnerID=8YFLogxK

The deep-water, sediment-starved Rockall Trough separates the western Irish shelf from the Rockall Bank. Both margins have narrow, steep slopes that connect the continental shelf with the deeper basin but differ in their underlying geological controls and sediment transport processes. We compare and...