[Rockhounds] The Late Pleistocene Solsikke Slide, a North Sea megaslide five times bigger than Storegga Slide

[Paul]

The abstract to the below paper states:

"The deposits linked to this mega-slide, named 
the Solsikke Slide, have a volume exceeding 
15,000 km3. This is five times greater than the 
neighboring tsunamigenic Holocene Storegga 
Slide’s volume, and makes the Solsikke Slide 
one of the largest landslides yet discovered on 
our planet.”

The open access paper is:

Barrett, R., Bellwald, B., Talling, P.J., Sokolkova,
E., Grob, H., Lenz, K.F., Lohrberg, A., von 
Deimling, J.S., Gross, F. and Krastel, S., 2025. 
Deep Secrets: Discovery of a giant mega-slide in 
the North Sea Fan, offshore Norway. Marine 
Geology, p.107554. open access
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322725000799
https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/62168/1/1-s2.0-S0025322725000799-main.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.