The catastrophic final flooding of Doggerland by the Storegga Slide tsunami

Weninger, Bernhard; Schulting, Rick; Bradtmöller, Marcel; Clare, Lee; Collard, Mark; Edinborough, Kevan; Hilpert, Johanna; Jöris, Olaf; Niekus, M.J.L.Th.; J. Rohling, Eelco; Wagner, Bernd

doi:10.4312/dp.35.1

Public

The catastrophic final flooding of Doggerland by the Storegga Slide tsunami

Published in Documenta Praehistorica • Dec 31, 2008

Authors:

Bernhard Weninger

Rick Schulting

Marcel Bradtmöller

Abstract

Around 8200 calBP, large parts of the now submerged North Sea continental shelf (‘Doggerland’) were catastrophically flooded by the Storegga Slide tsunami, one of the largest tsunamis known for the Holocene, which was generated on the Norwegian coastal margin by a submarine landslide. In the present...

Subject

Geology

Holocene

Submarine landslide

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!