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

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Stewart HA & Long D (2016) Glacigenic debris-flows observed in 3D seismic high-resolution seafloor imagery, Faroe¨CShetland 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¨CShetland 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
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Publication date31/12/2016
Publication date online30/11/2016
Date accepted by journal30/11/2016
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PublisherGeological Society of London
ISSN0435-4052

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