Submarine glacigenic debris flows, deep-sea channels and past ice-stream behaviour of the East Greenland continental margin

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 784-810

  Wilken, Manon ^a   Mienert, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DEBRIS; EROSION; MARINE ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGIONAL PLANNING; SEDIMENTS;

AGGRADATION; GLACIGENIC DEBRIS FLOW (GDF); PROGRADATION; SUBMARINE SLIDING;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DEEP SEA; ICE STREAM; MELTWATER; SEDIMENT; SEISMIC DATA; SUBMARINE; WEICHSELIAN;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; EAST GREENLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREENLAND; GREENLAND SEA; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; NORWEGIAN SEA; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33646491481     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Aagaard K., and Coachman L.K. The East Greenland Current north of Denmark Strait: part I. Arctic (1968) 181-200
2. Aagaard, K., Darnall, C., Foldvik, A., Toerresen, T., 1985. Fram Strait Current Measurements 1984-1985. Report No. 63, University of Bergen, Department of Oceanography, Geophysical Institute, Bergen, Norway.
3. Andreassen K., Nilssen L., Rafaelsen B., and Kuilman L. Three-dimensional seismic data from the Barents Sea margin reveal evidence of past ice streams and their dynamics. Geology 32 8 (2004) 729-732
4. Antonow, M., 1995. Sedimentationsmuster um den Vesteris Seamount (zenrale Grönlandsee) in den letzten 250000 Jahren. Geomar report, 44. Geomar, Kiel, 121pp.
5. Bryn P., Berg K., Forsberg C.-F., Solheim A., and Kvalstad T.-J. Explaining the Storegga Slide. Marine and Petroleum Geology 22 (2005) 11-19
6. Butt F., Elverhøy A., Forsberg C., and Solheim A. Evolution of the Scoresby Sund Fan, central East Greenland-evidence from ODP site 987. Norwegian Journal of Geology 81 (2001) 3-15
7. Channell, J.E.T., Smelror, M., Jansen, E., Higgins, S.M., Lehman, B., Eidvin, T., Solheim, A., 1999. Age models for glacial fan deposits off East Greenland and Svalbard (Sites 986 and 987). In: Raymo, M.E., Jansen, E., Blum, P., Herbert, T.D. (Eds.), Proceedings of ODP, Science Results, College Station, TX, pp. 19-34.
8. Chavez Jr. P.S. Processing techniques for digital sonar images from GLORIA. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 52 (1986) 1133-1145
9. Dahlgren K.I.T., and Vorren T.O. Sedimentary environment and glacial history during the last 40 ka of the Voring continental margin, mid-Norway. Marine Geology 193 (2003) 93-127
10. Dahlgren K.I.T., Vorren T.O., and Laberg J.S. The role of grounding-line sediment supply in ice-sheet advances and growth on continental shelves: an example from the mid-Norwegian sector of the Fennoscandian ice sheet during the Saalian and Weichselian. Quaternary International 95-96 (2002) 25-33
11. Dimakis P., Elverhoi A., Hoeg K., Solheim A., Harbitz C., Laberg J.S., Vorren T.O., and Marr J. Submarine slope stability on high-latitude glaciated Svalbard-Barents Sea margin. Marine Geology 162 (2000) 303-316
12. Dowdeswell J.A., Kenyon N.H., Eleverhoi A., Laberg J.S., Hollender F.J., Mienert J., and Siegert M.J. Large-scale sedimentation on the glacier-influenced Polar North Atlantic margins: Long-range side-scan sonar evidence. Geophysical Research Letter 23 (1996) 3535-3538
13. Dowdeswell J.A., Kenyon N.H., and Laberg J.S. The glacier-influenced Scoresby Sund fan, East Greenland continental margin: evidence from GLORIA and 3.5 kHz records. Marine Geology 143 (1997) 207-221
14. Dowdeswell J.A., Whittington R.J., Jennings A.E., Andrews J.T., Mackensen A., and Marienfeld P. An origin for laminated glacimarine sediments through sea-ice build-up and suppressed iceberg rafting. Sedimentology 47 (2000) 557-576
15. Dowdeswell J.A., Ó Cofaigh C., Taylor J., Kenyon N.H., Mienert J., and Wilken M. On the architecture of high-latitude continental margins; the influence of ice-sheet and sea-ice processes in the Polar North Atlantic. In: Dowdeswell J.A., and Ó Cofaigh C. (Eds). Glacier-Influenced Sedimentation on High-latitude Continental Margins (2002), Geological Society of London, London, United Kingdom
16. Dowdeswell J.A., Ó Cofaigh C., and Pudsey C.J. Thickness and extent of the subglacial till layer beneath an Antarctic paleo-ice stream. Geology 32 (2004) 13-16
17. Dowdeswell J.A., Ó Cofaigh C., and Pudsey C.J. Continental slope morphology and sedimentary processes at the mouth of an Antarctic palaeo-ice stream. Marine Geology 204 (2004) 203-214
18. Elverhoi A., Norem H., Andersen E.S., Dowdeswell J.A., Fossen I., Haflidason H., Kenyon N.H., Laberg J.S., King E.L., Sejrup H.P., Solheim A., and Vorren T. On the origin and flow behavior of submarine slides on deep-sea fans along the Norwegian Barents Sea continental margin. Geo-Marine Letters 17 (1997) 119-125
19. Elverhoi A., De Blasio F.V., Butt F.A., Issler D., Harbitz C., Engvik L., Solheim A., and Marr J. Submarine mass-wasting on glacially influenced continental slopes; processes and dynamics. In: Dowdeswell J.A., and Ó Cofaigh C. (Eds). Glacier-Influenced Sedimentation on High-latitude Continental Margins (2002), Geological Society of London, London, United Kingdom
20. Evans J., Dowdeswell J.A., Grobe H., Niessen F., Stein R., Hubberten H.W., and Whittington R.J. Late Quaternary sedimentation in Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord and the continental margin of East Greenland. In: Dowdeswell J.A., and Ó Cofaigh C. (Eds). Glacier-Influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins (2002), Geological Society of London, London, United Kingdom
21. Funder S. Quaternary geology of the ice-free areas and adjacent shelves of Greenland. In: Fulton R. (Ed). Quaternary Geology of Canada and Greenland (1989), Geological Survey of Canada, Canada 743-792
22. Funder S., Hjort C., and Landvik J.Y. The Last Glacial Cycles in East Greenland, an overview. Boreas 23 (1994) 283-293
23. Funder S., Hjort C., Landvik J.Y., Nam S.I., Reeh N., and Stein R. History of a stable ice margin East Greenland during the Middle and Upper Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 17 (1998) 77-123
24. Hjelstuen B.O., Sejrup H.P., Haflidason H., Berg K., and Bryn P. Neogene and Quaternary depositional environments on the Norwegian continental margin; 62°N-68°N. Marine Geology 213 (2004) 257-276
25. Hopkins T.S. The GIN Sea-a synthesis of its physical oceanography and literature review 1972-1985. Earth Science Reviews 30 (1991) 175-318
26. Jakobsson M., Cherkis N., Woodward J., Macnab R., and Coakley B. New grid of Arctic bathymetry aids scientists and mapmakers. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (2000) p. 89, 93, 96
27. Jansen, E., Raymo, M.E., Blum, P., et al., (Eds.), 1996. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports: North Atlantic-Arctic gateways II. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Part A: Initial Reports, 162, College Station, TX, United States.
28. Kenyon N.H. Speculations on the geological causes of backscatter variation on GLORIA sonographs from the Mississippi and De Soto Fans, Gulf of Mexico. Geo-Marine Letters 12 (1992) 24-32
29. King E.L., Sejrup H.P., Haflidason H., Elverhoi A., and Aarseth I. Quaternary seismic stratigraphy of the North Sea Fan: glacially fed gravity flow aprons, hemipelagic sediments, and large submarine slides. Marine Geology 130 (1996) 293-315
30. King E.L., Haflidason H., Sejrup H.P., and Lovlie R. Glacigenic debris flows on the North Sea Trough Mouth Fan during ice stream maxima. Marine Geology 152 (1998) 217-246
31. Laberg J.S., and Vorren T.O. Late Weichselian Submarine Debris Flow Deposits on the Bear-Island-Trough-Mouth-Fan. Marine Geology 127 (1995) 45-72
32. Laberg J.S., and Vorren T.O. The glacier-fed fan at the mouth of Storfjorden trough, western Barents Sea: A comparative study. Geologische Rundschau 85 (1996) 338-349
33. Laberg J.S., and Vorren T.O. Flow behaviour of the submarine glacigenic debris flows on the Bear Island Trough Mouth Fan, western Barents Sea. Sedimentology 47 (2000) 1105-1117
34. Lambeck K., Esat T.M., and Potter E.-K. Links between climate and sea levels for the past three million years. Nature 419 (2002) 199-206
35. Larsen H.C. The East Greenland Shelf. In: Grantz A., Johnson L., and Sweeney J.F. (Eds). The Arctic Ocean region (1990), Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado 185-210
36. Larsen H.C., Saunders A.D., Clift P.D., Beget J., Wei W., Spezzaferri S., Ali J., Cambray H., Demant A., Fitton G., Fram M.S., Fukuma K., Gieskes J., Holmes M.A., Hunt J., Lacasse C., Larsen L.M., Lykkeanderson H., Meltser A., Morrison M.L., Nemoto N., Okay N., Saito S., Sinton C., Stax R., Vallier T.L., Vandamme D., Werner R., and Cliff P.D. 7-Million Years of Glaciation in Greenland. Science 264 (1994) 952-955
37. Lekens W.A.H., Sejrup H.-P., Haflidason H., Petersen G.-Ø., Hjlestuen B., and Knorr G. Laminated sediments preceding Heinrich event 1 in the Northern North Sea and Southern Norwegian Sea: origin, processes and regional linkage. Marine Geology 216 (2005) 27-50
38. Mienert, J., 2000. Cruise report R/V Jan Mayen, 3rd-15th October 2000, Department of Geology, University Tromsø [unpublished].
39. Mienert, J., 2001. Cruise report R/V Jan Mayen, 2nd-12th October 2001, Department of Geology, University Tromsø [unpublished].
40. Mienert J. COSTA-continental slope stability: major aims and topics. Marine Geology 213 (2004) 1-8
41. Mienert J., and Weaver P. European Margin Sediment Dynamics: side-Scan Sonar and Seismic Images (2003), Springer, Berlin 309pp
42. Mienert J., Kenyon N.H., Thiede J., and Hollender F.-J. Polar continental margins: studies off East Greenland. EOS, Transactions 74 (1993) p. 225, 231, 234, and 236
43. Mienert J., Hollender F.-J., and Kenyon N.H. GLORIA survey of the East Greenland margin: 70°N to 80°N. In: Crane K., and Solheim A. (Eds). Seafloor Atlas of the Northern Norwegian-Greenland Sea (1995), Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo 150-151
44. Mienert J., Vanneste M., Bünz S., Andreassen K., Haflidason H., and Sejrup H.-P. Ocean warming and gas hydrate stability on the mid-Norwegian margin at the Storegga Slide. Marine and Petroleum Geology 22 (2005) 233-244
45. Miller R.L., Dwan F.S., and Cheng C.F. Digital preprocessing techniques for GLORIA II sonar images. Geo-Marine Letters 11 (1991) 23-31
46. Mohrig D., Whipple K.X., Hondzo M., Ellis C., and Parker G. Hydroplaning of subaqueous debris flow. Geological Society of America Bulletin 110 (1998) 387-394
47. Myhre, A.M., Thiede, J., Firth, J.V., Ahagon, N., Black, K.S., Bloemendal, J., Brass, G.W., Bristow, J.F., Chow, N., Cremer, M., Davis, L., Flower, B., Fronval, T., Hood, J., Hull, D., Koc, N., Larsen, B., Lyle, M.W., McManus, J., O Connell, S., Osterman, L.E., Rack, F.R., Sato, T., Scherer, R.P., Spiegler, D., Stein, R., Tadross, M., Wells, S., Williamson, D., Witte, B., Wolf Welling, T., Marin, J.A. (Eds.), 1995. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports: North Atlantic-Arctic gateways I. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Part A: Initial Reports, 151. Texas A & M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States.
48. Nygard A., Sejrup H.P., Haflidason H., and King E.L. Geometry and genesis of glacigenic debris flows on the North Sea Fan: TOBI imagery and deep-tow boomer evidence. Marine Geology 188 (2002) 15-33
49. Ó Cofaigh C., and Dowdeswell J.A. Laminated sediments in glacimarine environments: diagnostic criteria for their interpretation. Quaternary Science Reviews 20 (2001) 1411-1436
50. Ó Cofaigh C., Taylor J., Dowdeswell J.A., Rosell M.A., Kenyon N.H., Evans J., and Mienert J. Sediment reworking on high-latitude continental margins and its implications for palaeoceanographic studies; insights from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea. In: Dowdeswell J.A., and Ó Cofaigh C. (Eds). Glacier-Influenced Sedimentation on High-latitude Continental Margins (2002), Geological Society of London, London, United Kingdom
51. Ó Cofaigh C., Taylor J., Dowdeswell J.A., and Pudsey C.J. Palaeo-ice streams, trough mouth fans and high-latitude continental slope sedimentation. In: Piotrowski J.A., Knudsen K.L., Clark C.D., and Evans D.J.A. (Eds). Paleo-ice Streams (2003), Taylor & Francis, Oslo, Norway
52. Ó Cofaigh C., Dowdeswell J.A., Kenyon N.H., Evans J., Taylor J., Mienert J., and Wilken M. Timing and significance of glacially influenced mass-flow activity in the submarine channels of the Greenland Basin. Marine Geology 207 (2004) 39-54
53. O'Grady D.B., and Syvitski J.P.M. Large-scale morphology of Arctic continental slopes; the influence of sediment delivery on slope form. In: Dowdeswell Julian A., and Ó Cofaigh C. (Eds). Glacier-Influenced Sedimentation on High-latitude Continental Margins (2002), Geological Society of London, London, United Kingdom
54. Raymo, M.E., Jansen, E., Blum, P., Andersen, E.S., Austin, W.E.N., Baumann, K.H., Bout, R.V., Carter, S.J., Channell, J.E.T., Cullen, J.L., Flower, B.P., Higgins, S.M., Hodell, D.A., Hood, J.A., Hyun, S., Ikehara, M., King, T., Larter, R., Lehman, B., Locker, S., McIntyre, K., McManus, J., Meng, L.B., O Connell, S., Ortiz, J.D., Rack, F.R., Solheim, A., Wei, W., 1999. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, scientific results, North Atlantic-Arctic gateways II. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 162. Texas A & M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States, 295, 1 sheet pp.
55. Searle R., Le Bas T., Mitchell N., DSomers M., Parson L., and Patriat P. GLORIA image processing: the state of the art. Marine Geophysical Researches 12 (1990) 21-39
56. Sejrup H.P., Haflidason H., Hjelstuen B.O., Nygard A., Bryn P., and Lien R. Pleistocene development of the SE Nordic Seas Margin. Marine Geology 213 (2004) 169-200
57. Shipboard Scientific Party. 1996. Site 987. In: Jansen, E., Raymo, M.E., Blum, P., et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial reports; North Atlantic-Arctic gateways II. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Part A: Initial Reports. Texas A & M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States, pp. 345-387.
58. Solheim A., Faleide J.I., Andersen E.S., Elverhoi A., Forsberg C.F., Vanneste K., Uenzelmann-Neben G., and Channell J.E.T. Late Cenozoic seismic stratigraphy and glacial geological development of the East Greenland and Svalbard Barents Sea continental margins. Quaternary Science Reviews 17 (1998) 155-184
59. Somers M.L., Carson R.M., Revie J.A., Edge R.H., Barrows B.J., and Andrews A.G. GLORIA II-an improved long range sidescan sonar, Processings of the Institute of Electrical Engineering on Offshore Instrumentation and Communications, Oceanology International Technical Session J (1978), BPS Publications Ltd., London pp. 16-24
60. Stein R., Nam S.-I., Grobe H., and Hubberten H. Late Quaternary glacial history and short-term ice-rafted debris fluctuations along the East Greenland continental margin. In: Andrews J.T., Austin W.E.N., Bergsten H., and Jennings A.E. (Eds). Late Quaternary Palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic margins (1996), The Geological Society, London 135-151
61. Stuiver M., and Reimer P.J. Extended C-14 Data-Base and Revised Calib 3.0 C-14 Age Calibration Program. Radiocarbon 35 (1993) 215-230
62. Stuiver M., Reimer P.J., Bard E., Beck J.W., Burr G.S., Hughen K.A., Kromer B., McCormac G., Van der Plicht J., and Spurk M. INTCAL98 radiocarbon age calibration, 24,000-0 cal BP. Radiocarbon 40 (1998) 1041-1083
63. Taylor J., Dowdeswell J.A., Kenyon N.H., and Ó Cofaigh C. Late Quaternary architecture of trough-mouth fans; debris flows and suspended sediments on the Norwegian margin. In: Dowdeswell J.A., and Ó Cofaigh C. (Eds). Glacier-Influenced Sedimentation on High-latitude Continental Margins (2002), Geological Society of London, London, United Kingdom 2002
64. Thiede, J., Myhre, A.M., Firth, J.V., Johnson, G.L., Ruddiman, W.F. (Eds.), 1996. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific results: North Atlantic-Arctic gateways I. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 151. Texas A & M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States.
65. Thiede J., Winkler A., WolfWelling T., Eldholm O., Myhre A.M., Baumann K.H., Henrich R., and Stein R. Late Cenozoic history of the Polar North Atlantic: Results from ocean drilling. Quaternary Science Reviews 17 (1998) 185-208
66. Vanneste K., Uenzelmann-Neben G., and Miller H. Seismic Evidence for Long-Term History of Glaciation on Central East Greenland Shelf South of Scoresby-Sund. Geo-Marine Letters 15 (1995) 63-70
67. Vorren T.O., and Laberg J.S. Trough mouth fans-Palaeoclimate and ice-sheet monitors. Quaternary Science Reviews 16 (1997) 865-881
68. Vorren T.O., Hald M., and Thomsen E. Quaternary sediments and environments on the continental shelf off northern Norway. Marine Geology 57 (1984) 229-257
69. Vorren T.O., Laberg J.S., Blaume F., Dowdeswell J.A., Kenyon N.H., Mienert J., Rumohr J., and Werner F. The Norwegian Greenland Sea continental margins: Morphology and late Quaternary sedimentary processes and environment. Quaternary Science Reviews 17 (1998) 273-302
70. Weber M.E., Niessen F., Kuhn G., and Wiedicke M. Calibration and application of marine sedimentary physical properties using a multi-sensor core logger. Marine Geology 136 (1997) 151-172
71. Wessel P., and Smith W.H.F. Free software helps map and display data. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 72 (1991) 441
72. Yoon S.H., and Chough S.K. Sedimentary characteristics of Late Pleistocene bottom-current deposits, Barents Sea slope off northern Norway. Sedimentary Geology 82 (1993) 33-45