Seafloor Morphology of the Storfjorden and Kveithola Palaeo Ice Streams (NW Barents Kveithola Palaeo-Ice Streams (NW Barents Sea): joint Italian and Spanish dataset Michele Rebesco 1 , Angelo Camerlenghi 2,3 , Mayte Pedrosa 3 , Daniela Accettella 1 , Ben DeMol 4 , Roger Urgeles 5 , Renata Giulia Lucchi 1,3 , Andrea Caburlotto 1 1) OGS, Trieste, Italy (mrebesco@ogs.trieste.it) 3) Universitat de Barcelona, Spain ( ebesco@ogs t este t) 2) Istitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, 4) Parc Científic, Barcelona, Spain 5) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain Barcelona, Spain Stockholm, 4 May 2011
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Seafloor Morphology of the Storfjorden and Kveithola Palaeo Ice Streams (NW BarentsKveithola Palaeo-Ice Streams (NW Barents
Sea): joint Italian and Spanish dataset
Michele Rebesco1, Angelo Camerlenghi2,3, Mayte Pedrosa3, Daniela Accettella1, Ben DeMol4, Roger Urgeles5, Renata Giulia Lucchi1,3, Andrea Caburlotto1
3) Universitat de Barcelona, Spain( ebesco@ogs t este t)
2) Istitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats,
4) Parc Científic, Barcelona, Spain
5) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC),
Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona, Spain
Stockholm, 4 May 2011
IPY Activity 367 NICE-STREAMS(Neogene ice streams and sedimentary processes on high-latitude continental margins)(Neogene ice streams and sedimentary processes on high latitude continental margins)
http://sites.google.com/site/ipynicestreams/
R/V OGS E lR/V OGS-Explora
SVAIS
BIO HESPÉRIDES
SVAIS2007P.I. Angelo CamerlenghiC S
EGLACOM2008P.I. Michele Rebesco
IBCAO 2008
ICREA, SpainOGS, Italy
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Main Objective:Geologic- geophysical study of an ice-stream dominated d iti l t t t tdepositional system to reconstruct:-The evolution of this Arctic margin since the onset of glaciation (Pliocene) to the last deglaciation- Continental slope instability phenomena
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Multiple keel (?)Iceberg ploughingIceberg ploughing
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Canyons and landslideslandslides
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Kveithola Trough, Location map (Fig.1). A) Bathymetry of the Barents Sea (IBCAO). ) y y ( )B) Study area (Ottesen et al. (2006) + EGLACOM and SVAIS data.
The figures hereafter are taken from the paper that is presently being published in Marine Geology
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Kveithola Trough, swath bathymetryMega Scale Glacial Lineations (MSGL) overprinted by
transverse Grounding Zone Wedges (GZW)Fig. 3
transverse Grounding Zone Wedges (GZW)
Fig. 2
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Multi-channel seismic reflection profile IT_EG-06: gross sub-bottom structure of the Kveithola Troughg g
Fig. 4
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CHIRP profile IT_EG-60,sub bottom characteristics:sub-bottom characteristics: Unit 1 = homogeneous,Unit 2 = laminated,,Unit 3, transparent with MSGL and transverse (GZW) ridges
Fi 5Fig. 5
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Close-up of CHIRP profiles IT_EG-53 and -60:sub-bottom details of the transparent wedge and of the p gsedimentary drape
Fig. 6
Fig 7Fig. 7
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Interpretation:pThe series of transverse GZW ridges was produced during successive stillstandsproduced during successive stillstandsof an episodic deglaciation.
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