Assemblages of submarine landforms in the glacial troughs of the northern Barents Sea, east of Svalbard

Hogan, Kelly A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1256-8010; Dowdeswell, J. A.; Noormets, R.. 2016 Assemblages of submarine landforms in the glacial troughs of the northern Barents Sea, east of Svalbard. In: Dowdeswell, J.A.; Canals, M.; Jakobsson, M.; Todd, B.J.; Dowdeswell, E.K.; Hogan, K.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1256-8010, (eds.) Atlas of submarine glacial landforms: modern, Quaternary and ancient. London, Geological Society of London, 333-336. (Geological Society Memoir, 46, 46).

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract/Summary

The Barents Sea is a wide, relatively deep epicontinental sea consisting of shallower banks (c. 50–100 m depth) separated by broad, flat-bottomed troughs (c. 200–400 m depth) that radiate out towards its western and northern margins (Fig. 1a). These troughs have been excavated by grounded ice during multiple glaciations through the Plio-Pleistocene (Jakobsson et al. 2014). During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Barents Sea Ice Sheet (BSIS) extended across the entire northern Barents Sea to the shelf break (Svendsen et al. 2004; Jakobsson et al. 2014). Fast-flowing ice drained the ice sheet through these troughs and produced a suite of seafloor landforms that preserves both a record of former ice-flow patterns and of how the ice sheet retreated during deglaciation (Dowdeswell et al. 2010; Hogan et al. 2010a).

Item Type:	Publication - Book Section
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1144/M46.170
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > BAS Programmes 2015 > Palaeo-Environments, Ice Sheets and Climate Change
ISBN:	9781786202680
ISSN:	0435-4052
Date made live:	09 Jan 2017 11:28 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515711

Actions (login required)

View Item

Document Downloads

More statistics for this item...