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Skjoldryggen terminal moraine on the mid-Norwegian shelf

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Dowdeswell, JA 
Ottesen, D 
Rise, L 

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Terminal moraines are relatively large ridges of diamictic glacial debris produced at the outermost margins of past glaciers and ice sheets. Their identification on land is important in mapping the maximum extent of Quaternary ice sheets (Svendsen et al. 2004). In marine environments where fast-flowing ice streams reach the shelf edge during full-glacial intervals, moraine ridges are not usually present and the seafloor is characterised by parallel-to-flow streamlined sediments (Ottesen & Dowdeswell 2009). Submarine terminal moraine ridges, by contrast, appear more typical of slower-flowing ice margins (Dahlgren et al. 2002; Dowdeswell & Elverhøi 2002).

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Geological Society Memoir

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0435-4052
2041-4722

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46

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Geological Society of London