Contamination of 8.2 ka cold climate records by the Storegga tsunami in the Nordic Seas

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Bondevik, Stein, Risebrobakken, Bjørg, Gibbons, Steven J., Rasmussen, Tine Lander, Løvholt, Finn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2024
• Subjects: Norway; Storegga; Nordic Seas
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/33373; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47347-9

The 8200-year BP cooling event is reconstructed in part from sediments in the Norwegian and North Seas. Here we show that these sediments have been reworked by the Storegga tsunami – dated to the coldest decades of the 8.2 ka event. We simulate the maximum tsunami flow velocity to be 2–5 m/s on the...