Abstract
The submarine Rona Apron has built out into the Faroe-Shetland Channel as one of several Pliocene-Quaternary depocentres on the deep-water Atlantic margin north-west of Britain (Fig. 1). Fed from an ice sheet which was presumed to have extended to the shelfbreak during the late Pleistocene (Stoker 1995), the Rona Apron has line-to-arcuate sourced debris flows which are typical of a constructional slope front or apron (terminology after Galloway 1998).
Location and regional Pliocene-Holocene depositional setting of the Rona Apron. Pliocene-Pleistocene isopachytes modified after Evans (1997)
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Holmes, R., Bulat, J., Hamilton, I., Long, D. (2003). Morphology of an Ice-Sheet Limit and Constructional Glacially-Fed Slope Front, Faroe-Shetland Channel. In: Mienert, J., Weaver, P. (eds) European Margin Sediment Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55846-7_24
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