Abstract
Study of an arcuate belt of deeps with its apex to the north of Aberdeen leads to the suggestion that at the last glacial maximum Norwegian ice failed to cross the Norwegian Trench not far south of Bergen. This left an ice free area reaching across the North Sea to Scotland.
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FLINN, D. Ice Front in the North Sea. Nature 215, 1151–1154 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151151a0
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