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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Main Authors: Dowdeswell, EK, Todd, BJ, Dowdeswell, JA
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Geological Society of London 2016
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Online Access:https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253397