Sediment and stable carbon isotope record of the Helgoland mud area

The Helgoland mud area in the German Bight is one of the very few sediment depocenters in the North Sea. Despite the shallowness of the setting (13 to ~1.6 mm/year. Among a number of major environmental changes in this region during the Middle Ages, the disintegration of the island of Helgoland appears to be the most likely factor which caused the very high sedimentation rates prior to 1250 a.d. According to historical maps, Helgoland used to be substantially bigger at around 800 a.d. than today. After the shift in sedimentation, a continuous and highly resolved paleoenvironmental record reflects natural events, such as regional storm-flood activity, as well as human impacts at work at local to global scales, on sedimentation in the Helgoland mud area.

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Hebbeln, Dierk, Scheurle, Carolyn, Lamy, Frank (2003). Dataset: Sediment and stable carbon isotope record of the Helgoland mud area. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.711648

DOI retrieved: 2003

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Imported on November 30, 2024
Last update November 30, 2024
License CC-BY-3.0
Source https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.711648
Author Hebbeln, Dierk
Given Name Dierk
Family Name Hebbeln
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Scheurle, Carolyn
Lamy, Frank
Source Creation 2003
Publication Year 2003
Resource Type application/zip - filename: Hebbeln_2003
Subject Areas
Name: Lithosphere

Name: Oceans

Related Identifiers
Title: Depositional history of the Helgoland mud area,German Bight, North Sea
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-003-0127-0
Type: DOI
Relation: IsSupplementTo
Year: 2003
Source: Geo-Marine Letters
Authors: Hebbeln Dierk , Scheurle Carolyn , Lamy Frank .

Title: Climate development and its effect on the North Sea environment during the Late Holocene
Identifier: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-diss000008399
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 2004
Source: Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, Germany
Authors: Scheurle Carolyn .