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Title:	Ice-sheet dynamics and glacial development of the Norwegian continental margin during the last 3 million years
Authors:	Ottesen, Dag
Issue Date:	29-Jun-2007
Publisher:	The University of Bergen
Abstract:	This thesis is mainly about the dynamics of the palaeo-ice sheets that covered Scandinavia, Barents Sea and Svalbard during the last glaciation. Morphological interpretation of regional and detailed bathymetric data sets on the Norwegian shelf from the North Sea (57°N) to Svalbard (80°N) has elucidated the ice-flow patterns along the western margin of the Scandinavian and Barents/Svalbard ice sheets. About 20 cross-shelf troughs with glacial lineations are interpreted as former pathways for fast-flowing ice streams. The two largest palaeo-ice streams were the Norwegian Channel Ice Stream and Bear Island Ice Stream, each 150-200 km wide at their mouths. Studies of large-scale margin morphology and seismic-reflection profiles have identified large submarine fans at the mouths of several major cross-shelf troughs. Improved knowledge of the regional development of the margin, and detailed morphological maps of the buried palaeo-surfaces, show that similar large-scale glacial processes have been active in a substantial part of the Late Pliocene/Pleistocene (c. last 3 million years). Interpretation of a large seismic data base has made it possible to map the whole Naust Formation, which comprises sediments deposited on the mid-Norwegian margin during the last 3 million years. During this period, large quantities of glacially derived material were transported westward from the Norwegian mainland and the inner parts of the shelf, and deposited mainly as prograding sediment wedges into a basin of intermediate depth offshore of Mid Norway. The deposits are more than 1000 m thick over an extensive area, and the shelf edge migrated up to 150 km westwards. Very-high-resolution bathymetric data has made it possible to study sedimentary processes related to recently surging glaciers on Svalbard (the last few hundred years). The data sets also show that mega-scale glacial lineations not only can form beneath large ice streams, but are also produced over a few years beneath surging tidewater glaciers lying on deforming sedimentary beds.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2333
ISBN:	978-82-308-0393-6 (print version)
Appears in Collections:	Department of Earth Science (Various)

Files in This Item: File Description Size Format Main_Thesis_Dag_Ottesen.pdf Main Thesis 1.58 MB Adobe PDF View/Open Paper_I_Dag_Ottesen.pdf Ottesen, D.; Rise, L.; Rokoengen, K. and Sættem, J., Glacial processes and largescale morphology on the mid-Norwegian continental shelf. In Martinsen, O.J. and Dreyer, T., (Eds.), Sedimentary Environments Offshore Norway – Palaeozoic to Recent: Norwegian Petroleum Society Special Publication, 10, 441-449. Copyright 2001 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. 8.9 MB Adobe PDF View/Open Paper_II_Dag_Ottersen.pdf Ottesen, D.; Dowdeswell, J. A.; Rise, L.; Rokoengen, K. and Henriksen, S., Large-scale morphological evidence for past ice-stream flow on the mid-Norwegian continental margin. In Dowdeswell, J.A. and Ó Cofaigh, C. (Eds.), Glacier- Influenced Sedimentation on High-Latitude Continental Margins, 245-258, Special Publication 203. Copyright 2002 Geological Society of London. Abstract only. Full-text not available due to publisher restrictions. 374.21 kB Adobe PDF View/Open Paper_III_Dag_Ottersen.pdf Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117(7), Ottesen, D.; Dowdeswell, J. A. and Rise, L., Submarine landforms and the reconstruction of fast-flowing ice streams within a large Quaternary ice sheet: The 2500-km-long Norwegian-Svalbard margin (57° - 80°N), pp. 1033-1050. Copyright 2005 Geological Society of America. Abstract only. Full-text not available due to publisher restrictions. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/B25577.1 19.18 kB Adobe PDF View/Open Paper_IV_Dag_Ottesen.pdf Marine Geology 218(1-4), Ottesen, D.; Rise, L.; Knies, J.; Olsen, L. and Henriksen, S., The Vestfjorden-Trænadjupet palaeo-ice stream drainage system, mid-Norwegian continental shelf, pp. 175-189. Copyright 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2005.03.001 1.64 MB Adobe PDF View/Open Paper_V_Dag_Ottesen.pdf Marine and Petroleum Geology 22(1-2), Rise, L.; Ottesen, D.; Berg, K. and Lundin, E., Large-scale development of the mid-Norwegian margin during the last 3 million years, pp. 33-44. Copyright 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2004.10.010 1.57 MB Adobe PDF View/Open Paper_VI_Dag_Ottersen.pdf Geology 34, Dowdeswell, J. A.; Ottesen, D. and Rise, L., Flow switching and large-scale deposition by ice streams draining former ice sheets, 313-316. Copyright 2006 Geological Society of America. Abstract only. Full-text not available due to publisher restrictions. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G22253.1 16.09 kB Adobe PDF View/Open Paper_VII_Dag_Ottesen.pdf Journal of Geophysical Research 111, F01016, Ottesen, D. and Dowdeswell, J. A., Assemblages of submarine landforms produced by tidewater glaciers in Svalbard, pp.1-16. Copyright 2006 American Geophysical Union (AGU). http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005JF000330 24.01 MB Adobe PDF View/Open Paper_VIII_Dag_Ottesen.pdf Ottesen, D.; Dowdeswell, J. A.; Landvik, J. Y. and Mienert, J., (2006), Dynamics of the Late Weichselian ice sheet on Svalbard inferred from high-resolution sea-floor morphology. Preprint. Published in Boreas 36(3): 2007, pp. 286 - 306. Copyright 2007 Taylor & Francis. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03009480701210378 4.17 MB Adobe PDF View/Open

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