Quaternary evolution of the northern North Sea margin through glacigenic debris-flow and contourite deposition

• Main Authors: Batchelor, C, Ottesen, D, Dowdeswell, JA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: contourites; glacigenic debris-flows; northern North Sea; palaeo-ice stream; Quaternary; Norwegian Sea; Måløy; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic; North atlantic Thermohaline circulation
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/262906; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.8195

The Norwegian Channel Ice Stream of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet extended across the northern North Sea margin during the mid- to late Quaternary, eroding older sediment from the continental shelf. Consequently, little is known about early Quaternary sedimentation on this margin. We use two- and three...