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Mass wasting on the submarine Lomonosov Ridge, central Arctic Ocean
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2007 (English)In: Marine Geology, ISSN 0025-3227, E-ISSN 1872-6151, Vol. 243, no 1-4, p. 132-142Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A total of seven arcuate transverse troughs 5-6 km wide, 7-9 km long and 150-200 m deep are present on both sides of the crest of the central part of Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Ocean. The troughs occur within a restricted ridge length of ca. 65 km. Trough morphology and disrupted, piecewise continuous sub-bottom reflections down to a common stratigraphic horizon below the troughs indicate lateral spread of progressively disintegrating sediment blocks above a glide plane. Lomonosov Ridge is aseismic, but the spatially restricted mass waste occurrences suggest sediment instability induced by earthquake loading. Another possibility is a pressure wave from a possible impact of an extraterrestrial object on Alpha Ridge about 500 km away. The slide event(s) is likely to be pre-late Pleistocene as sediment deposition within one of the slide scars appears continuous over the last c. 600 ka. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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2007. Vol. 243, no 1-4, p. 132-142
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Arctic Ocean; Lomonosov Ridge; seismic reflection; slide scars; mass wasting
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URN: urn:nbn:se:polar:diva-3163DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.04.012OAI: oai:DiVA.org:polar-3163DiVA, id: diva2:1050057
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