TY - JOUR
T1 - Late Quaternary slope instability on the Faeroe margin
T2 - Mass flow features and timing of events
AU - Kuijpers, A.
AU - Nielsen, T.
AU - Akhmetzhanov, A.
AU - de Haas, H.
AU - Kenyon, N.
AU - van Weering, T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This research was carried out within the framework of the UNESCO-supported international Training-Trough-Research (TTR) program with financial support from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), and the GEM Faeroes offshore consortium. The latter organisations are thanked for their permission to publishing the data which were obtained during two TTR (8 and 9) cruises made with the R/V Professor Logachev in 1998 and 1999, respectively. We express our sincere thanks to the Master and crew of this vessel, the (co)-chief scientist on both cruises, Michael Ivanov from Moscow State University, and the highly qualified scientific and technical teams from Moscow State University and Polar Expedition, St. Petersburg, for their share in the work. Trier Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, is thanked for his contribution with magnetic susceptibility measurements (cruise TTR-9). Alice Rosenstand (GEUS) assisted with the illustrations. Tom Bugge (SAGA Petroleum) is thanked for critical reading of the manuscript before submission. The authors sincerely acknowledge comments by an anonymous reviewer and Burg Flemming which much improved the manuscript.
PY - 2001/2
Y1 - 2001/2
N2 - Deep-tow side-scan sonar, sub-bottom profiling and sediment core data reveal that, since the last interglacial, mass flows repeatedly occurred both on the northeastern Faeroe margin and on the Faeroes slope of the Faeroe-Shetland Channel. In both areas, the last two slope instability episodes are dated at the Pleistocene/ Holocene boundary and at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), i.e. during times of fast sea-level rise and increasing bottom current activity, and glacio-eustatic lowstand, respectively. A major fine-grained turbidite found in the Norwegian Sea basin off the Faeroe margin may be correlated with the LGM event. Several distinctive mass flow features have been documented. These include, among others, large swarms of debris flow 'glide' tracks with outrunner blocks found on the seabed of the northeastern Faeroe margin. It was concluded that the age of the latter features is not older than the LGM.
AB - Deep-tow side-scan sonar, sub-bottom profiling and sediment core data reveal that, since the last interglacial, mass flows repeatedly occurred both on the northeastern Faeroe margin and on the Faeroes slope of the Faeroe-Shetland Channel. In both areas, the last two slope instability episodes are dated at the Pleistocene/ Holocene boundary and at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), i.e. during times of fast sea-level rise and increasing bottom current activity, and glacio-eustatic lowstand, respectively. A major fine-grained turbidite found in the Norwegian Sea basin off the Faeroe margin may be correlated with the LGM event. Several distinctive mass flow features have been documented. These include, among others, large swarms of debris flow 'glide' tracks with outrunner blocks found on the seabed of the northeastern Faeroe margin. It was concluded that the age of the latter features is not older than the LGM.
KW - Arctic marine geology
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0035094020
U2 - 10.1007/s003670000053
DO - 10.1007/s003670000053
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035094020
SN - 0276-0460
VL - 20
SP - 149
EP - 159
JO - Geo-Marine Letters
JF - Geo-Marine Letters
IS - 3
ER -