Carl Fredrik Forsberg

TL;DR: The Storegga Slide occurred 8200 years ago and was the last megaslide in this region where similar slides have occurred with intervals of approximately 100 ky since the onset of continental shelf glaciations at 0.5 Ma.

TL;DR: The detailed mapping of the Storegga Slide morphological elements and the analyses of the slide development are based on high-quality acoustic and sampling data sets acquired through a cooperation between academia and the petroleum industry as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Storegga slide was released in an area where the average slope inclination is in the order of 0.6-0.7° as discussed by the authors. And the morphology of the upper part of the slide scar shows lateral spreads along marine clay layers indicating a retrogressive slide mechanism.

TL;DR: In this paper, detailed morphological investigations and a dating program have been performed to reveal the slide process and the timing of the slide, based on a comprehensive database, and detailed analyses of 89 cores within the Storegga Slide region have been undertaken.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed a glaciation curve for the Late Weichselian in the northern North Sea, based on new data from the Fladen, Sleipner and Troll areas, combined with earlier published results, and suggested that the maximum extent of the last glaciation along the NW European seaboard from the British Isles to northern Norway was prior to c. 22 ka BP.