Sedimentary evidence for a mid-Holocene iceberg-generated tsunami in a coastal lake, west Greenland.

• Published in: arktos
• Main Authors: Long, Antony J., Szczuciński, Witold, Lawrence, Thomas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2015
• Subjects: Greenland; Storegga; Disko bugt; Innaarsuit
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/17867/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/17867/1/17867.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s41063-015-0007-7

We report sedimentological evidence for a tsunami from a coastal lake at Innaarsuit, Disko Bugt (west Greenland), which was most likely generated by a rolling iceberg. The tsunami invaded the lake c. 6000 years ago, during a period of time when relative sea level (RSL) was falling quickly because of...