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Debris Flow Deposits on a Glacier-fed Submarine fan off the Western Barents Sea Continental Shelf

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Glaciated Continental Margins

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The large glacier-fed submarine fan off the western Barents Sea continental shelf, the Bear Island Trough Mouth Fan [Vorren et al., 1989] covers an area of about 240,000 km2. As revealed from both high resolution sparker and 3.5 kHz records, gravity cores and long-range side scan data, the Mid and Late Pleistocene succession is dominated by debris flow deposits, separated by thin interglacial/interstadial hemipelagic sediments [Damuth, 1978; Vorren et al., 1989; Vogt et al., 1993; Laberg and Vorren, 1995, 1996a; Dowdeswell et al., this volume]. A similar stratigraphy characterizes other high-latitude fans [King, this volume; Laberg and Vorren, 1996b].

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  1. Institute of Biology and Geology, University of Tromsø, N-9037, Tromsø, Norway

    Jan Sverre Laberg & Tore O. Vorren

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  1. Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austria, 8701 N. MoPac Expressway, Austin, TX, 78759, USA

    Thomas A. Davies

  2. Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Alexander Murray Bldg., St. John’s, NF, A1B 3X5, Canada

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  3. Marine and Coastal Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025-3591, USA

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  4. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B26 4A2, Canada

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  5. Byrd Polar Research Center, 1090 Carmack Rd., Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

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  6. Norwegian Polar Institute, P.O. Box 5072, Majorstua, Oslo, N0301, Norway

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  7. Murchison House, British Geological Survey, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3LA, Scotland, UK

    Martyn S. Stoker

  8. Dept. of Geology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 60115, USA

    Jay A. Stravers

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Laberg, J.S., Vorren, T.O. (1997). Debris Flow Deposits on a Glacier-fed Submarine fan off the Western Barents Sea Continental Shelf. In: Davies, T.A., et al. Glaciated Continental Margins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_45

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