Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Meltwater sediment transport as the dominating process in mid-latitude trough mouth fan formation

  • Benjamin Bellwald,
  • Sverre Planke,
  • Lukas W. M. Becker,
  • Reidun Myklebust

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18337-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Trough mouth fans are created via repeated glacigenic sediment transport from ice sheets. Here the authors use 3D seismic reflection data to present a formation model for the North Sea Fan and find that exceptionally large volumes of meltwater may mean that freshwater supply is underestimated during glacial cycles.