Onset and growth of Trough-Mouth Fans on the North-Western Barents Sea margin - implications for the evolution of the Barents Sea/Svalbard Ice Sheet

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 227-234

  Rebesco, M ^a   Laberg, J S ^b   Pedrosa, M T ^c   Camerlenghi, A ^a   Lucchi, R G ^a   Zgur, F ^a   Wardell, N ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Glacigenic debris flow deposits; Multichannel seismic reflection profiles; Seismostratigraphy; Trough Mouth Fans

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; SEISMIC WAVES; STRATIGRAPHY;

BARENTS SEA; GLACIGENIC DEBRIS FLOWS; MASS-WASTING; MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; NEW CORRELATIONS; SEISMOSTRATIGRAPHY; SHELF EDGES; SPITSBERGEN;

GLACIERS;

CONTOURITE; DEBRIS FLOW; GLACIAL EROSION; ICE SHEET; MASS WASTING; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SHELF BREAK; TROUGH;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; BELLSUND; HORNSUND; SPITSBERGEN; STORFJORDEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84900403868     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.08.015     Document Type: Article

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