Canyons and slides on the continental slope seaward of a shallow bank, Labrador margin, eastern Canada
The ~ 200 km-wide Labrador continental shelf consists of a series of shallow banks and intervening cross-shelf troughs (Fig. 1b). Glacial reconstructions suggest that the banks were occupied by slow-flowing ice and the troughs by ice-streams during several Quaternary glaciations (Dyke et al. 2002; J...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Geological Society of London
2016
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| Online Access: | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253397 |
| Summary: | The ~ 200 km-wide Labrador continental shelf consists of a series of shallow banks and intervening cross-shelf troughs (Fig. 1b). Glacial reconstructions suggest that the banks were occupied by slow-flowing ice and the troughs by ice-streams during several Quaternary glaciations (Dyke et al. 2002; Josenhans et al. 1986; Margold et al. 2015). On the continental slope offshore of the Makkovik Bank - southern Hopedale Saddle region, several submarine canyons and interfluves with numerous sediment destabilisation features are visible in multibeam data (Fig. 1a). This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Geological Society of London via https://doi.org/10.1144/M46.133 |
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