“…These channels form part of the extensive networks of post-Last Glacial Maximum North Sea channel fills mapped by the North Sea Palaeolandscape Project (Fitch et al, 2005;Gaffney et al, 2007Gaffney et al, , 2009 and other studies (Cameron et al, 1987;Coughlan et al, 2018;Hepp et al, 2017Hepp et al, , 2019van Heteren et al, 2014;Hijma et al, 2012;Prins and Andresen, 2019;Salomonsen, 1993). The channel network was buried during subsequent marine transgression which began at around 10 ka at Dogger Bank, with complete inundation occurring around 8.5-8 ka (Brooks et al, 2011;Emery et al, 2019b;Shennan et al, 2000;Sturt et al, 2013). Shallow marine sand, varying in thickness from 0 m up to 25 m, was then deposited during the Late Holocene (Cotterill et al, 2017b;Emery et al, 2019b).The stratigraphy provides an archive of the transition (Cotterill et al, 2017b;Emery et al, 2019a, b), with the incised channels and Horizon Z observed in this study.…”