The Hinlopen Slide: A giant, submarine slope failure on the northern Svalbard margin, Arctic Ocean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 245, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 373-388

  Vanneste, Maarten ^a   Mienert, Jürgen ^a   Bünz, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; glaciated margin; headwall; high latitude submarine slope failure; Hinlopen; Northern Svalbard margin; rafted blocks; swath bathymetry

Indexed keywords

GLACIATED MARGIN; HIGH-LATITUDE SUBMARINE; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; SWATH BATHYMETRY;

BATHYMETRY; DEFORMATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSLIDES; SEDIMENTS;

SLOPE STABILITY;

SLOPE FAILURE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; SUBMARINE SLOPE; SWATH BATHYMETRY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; SVALBARD MARGIN;

EID: 33646170215     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.02.045     Document Type: Article

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