Nature Communications (Sep 2020)
Meltwater sediment transport as the dominating process in mid-latitude trough mouth fan formation
Abstract
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.