Karstens, Jens , Haflidason, Haflidi, Berndt, Christian and Crutchley, Gareth J. (2023) Revised Storegga Slide reconstruction reveals two major submarine landslides 12,000 years apart. Communications Earth & Environment, 4 . Art.Nr. 55 (2023). DOI 10.1038/s43247-023-00710-y.

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Abstract

The Storegga Slide is the largest known exposed submarine landslide in the world, which triggered a tsunami that inundated the coasts of northern Europe ~8,150 years ago. Previous studies suggested the removal of 50–70 m of sediment from the northern slide scar segment, contributing half of the total slide volume of up to 3200 km³. However, new sediment echosounder profiles and sedimentological constraints show that most material within the northern Storegga slide scar had already failed ~20,000 years ago, at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum. We refer to this previously undetected slope failure as the Nyegga Slide. In our revised slope failure reconstruction, the Nyegga Slide removed more than 35 m of sediments that were previously attributed to the tsunamigenic Storegga Slide. This implies that large slope failures at the mid-Norwegian margin occur more frequently than previously thought, indicating a higher tsunami hazard for the North Atlantic.

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