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Glacigenic debris-flows observed in 3D seismic high-resolution seafloor imagery, Faroe–Shetland Channel, NE Atlantic

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Stewart HA & Long D (2016) Glacigenic debris-flows observed in 3D seismic high-resolution seafloor imagery, Faroe–Shetland Channel, NE Atlantic. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 46 (1), pp. 361-362. https://doi.org/10.1144/m46.94

Abstract
Glacigenic debris-flows represent successive mass-flow deposits that build out a prograding wedge of sediment beyond the grounding zone of an ice sheet (e.g. Laberg & Vorren 1995; King et al. 1998). A prograding sedimentary depocentre extending from the outer shelf to the upper slope has been observed in geophysical datasets from the West Shetland margin of the Faroe–Shetland Channel, NW of the UK in the NE Atlantic. Overlapping, glacigenic debris-flows comprise the Rona and Foula wedges and provide insight into the extent and stability of the northern sector of the British Ice Sheet during the last full-glacial period (Stoker & Varming 2011).

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Geological Society, London, Memoirs: Volume 46, Issue 1

StatusPublished
FundersBritish Geological Survey
Publication date31/12/2016
Publication date online30/11/2016
Date accepted by journal30/11/2016
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/27900
PublisherGeological Society of London
ISSN0435-4052
eISSN2041-4722

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Ms Heather Stewart

Ms Heather Stewart

PhD Researcher, Biological and Environmental Sciences