Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences....Pages 1-8
Interplay Between Gas Hydrates and Submarine Slope Failure....Pages 11-30
Advanced Dynamic Soil Testing — Introducing the New Marum Dynamic Triaxial Testing Device....Pages 31-41
Clustering of Geotechnical Properties of Marine Sediments Through Self—Organizing Maps: An Example from the Zakynthos Canyon—Valley System, Greece....Pages 43-54
Identification of Shear Zones and Their Causal Mechanisms Using a Combination of Cone Penetration Tests and Seismic Data in the Eastern Niger Delta....Pages 55-65
Mass Wasting Dynamics at the Deeper Slope of the Ligurian Margin (Southern France)....Pages 67-77
Characterization of Micaceous Sand for Investigation of a Subsea Mass Movement....Pages 79-91
Estimating Drag Forces on Suspended and Laid-on-Seafloor Pipelines Caused by Clay-Rich Submarine Debris Flow Impact....Pages 93-103
Experimental Investigation of Subaqueous Clay-Rich Debris Flows, Turbidity Generation and Sediment Deposition....Pages 105-115
The Kinematics of a Debris Avalanche on the Sumatra Margin....Pages 117-125
3D Numerical Modelling of Submerged and Coastal Landslide Propagation....Pages 127-139
Peculiar Morphologies of Subaqueous Landslide Deposits and Their Relationship to Flow Dynamics....Pages 141-151
Large Landslides on Passive Continental Margins: Processes, Hypotheses and Outstanding Questions....Pages 153-165
Origin of Overpressure and Slope Failure in the Ursa Region, Northern Gulf of Mexico....Pages 167-178
History of Pore Pressure Build Up and Slope Instability in Mud-Dominated Sediments of Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope....Pages 179-190
How Does Fluid Inflow Geometry Control Slope Destabilization?....Pages 191-201
Geochemical Evidence for Groundwater-Charging of Slope Sediments: The Nice Airport 1979 Landslide and Tsunami Revisited....Pages 203-214
Modeling Slope Instability as Shear Rupture Propagation in a Saturated Porous Medium....Pages 215-225
Submarine Mass Transport Within Monterey Canyon: Benthic Disturbance Controls on the Distribution of Chemosynthetic Biological Communities....Pages 229-246
Multi-direction Flow in a Mass-Transport Deposit, Santos Basin, Offshore Brazil....Pages 247-255
Small-Scale Insights into Seismic-Scale Slumps: A Comparison of Slump Features from the Waitemata Basin, New Zealand, and the Møre Basin, Off-Shore Norway....Pages 257-266
The Block Composite Submarine Landslide, Southern New England Slope, U.S.A.: A Morphological Analysis....Pages 267-277
Post-Megaslide Slope Stability North of Svalbard, Arctic Ocean....Pages 279-287
Geomorphology of the Talismán Slide (Western slope of Hatton Bank, NE Atlantic Ocean)....Pages 289-300
Investigations on the Peach 4 Debrite, a Late Pleistocene Mass Movement on the Northwest British Continental Margin....Pages 301-311
Redistribution of Sediments by Submarine Landslides on the Eastern Nankai Accretionary Prism....Pages 313-322
Mass Wasting at the Easternmost Cyprus Arc, Off Syria, Eastern Mediterranean....Pages 323-334
Risk Analysis for Hurricane-Wave Induced Submarine Mudslides....Pages 335-351
GIS-Based Assessment of Submarine Mudflow Hazard Offshore of the Mississippi Delta, Gulf of Mexico....Pages 353-364
Spatial Analysis of Shallow Slope Instability Incorporating an Engineering Geological Ground Model....Pages 365-376
Estimating the Empirical Probability of Submarine Landslide Occurrence....Pages 377-386
Constraining Geohazards to the Past: Impact Assessment of Submarine Mass Movements on Seabed Developments....Pages 387-398
Evaluating Gas-Generated Pore Pressure with Seismic Reflection Data in a Landslide-Prone Area: An Example from Finneidfjord, Norway....Pages 399-410
Historic and Paleo-Submarine Landslide Deposits Imaged Beneath Port Valdez, Alaska: Implications for Tsunami Generation in a Glacial Fiord....Pages 411-421
Multibeam Bathymetry Investigations of Mass Movements in Lake Le Bourget (NW Alps, France) Using a Portable Platform....Pages 423-434
Morphodynamic and Slope Instability Observations at Wabush Lake, Labrador....Pages 435-446
Climate-Induced Turbidity Current Activity in NW-African Canyon Systems....Pages 447-459
Investigating the Timing, Processes and Deposits of One of the World\'s Largest Submarine Gravity Flows: The ‘Bed 5 Event’ Off Northwest Africa....Pages 463-474
MTCs of the Brazos-Trinity Slope System; Thoughts on the Sequence Stratigraphy of MTCs and Their Possible Roles in Shaping Hydrocarbon Traps....Pages 475-490
Southeast Australia: A Cenozoic Continental Margin Dominated by Mass Transport....Pages 491-502
A Database on Submarine Landslides of the Mediterranean Sea....Pages 503-513
Submarine Landslides Along the Algerian Margin: A Review of Their Occurrence and Potential Link with Tectonic Structures....Pages 515-525
Mass-Transport Deposits on the Algerian Margin (Algiers Area): Morphology, Lithology and Sedimentary Processes....Pages 527-539
Detailed Analysis of a Submarine Landslide (SAR-27) in the Deep Basin Offshore Algiers (Western Mediterranean)....Pages 541-552
3D Seismic Interpretation of Mass Transport Deposits: Implications for Basin Analysis and Geohazard Evaluation....Pages 553-568
Slope Instability on the French Guiana Transform Margin from Swath-Bathymetry and 3.5 kHz Echograms....Pages 569-579
Megaslides in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, Brazilian Equatorial Margin....Pages 581-591
Detached and Shelf-Attached Mass Transport Complexes on the Magdalena Deepwater Fan....Pages 593-606
Character, Distribution and Timing of Latest Quaternary Mass-Transport Deposits in Texas—Louisiana Intraslope Basins Based on High-Resolution (3.5 kHz) Seismic Facies and Piston Cores....Pages 607-617
Upper Cretaceous Mass Transport Systems Above the Wyandot Formation Chalk, Offshore Nova Scotia....Pages 619-630
The Significance of Mass-Transport Deposits for the Evolution of a Proglacial Continental Slope....Pages 631-641
Middle to Late Miocene Slope Failure and the Generation of a Regional Unconformity Beneath the Western Scotian Slope, Eastern Canada....Pages 645-655
Mass Transport Deposits on the Southwestern Newfoundland Slope....Pages 657-665
Mass Transport Events and Their Tsunami Hazard....Pages 667-684
Hydrodynamic Modeling of Tsunamis Generated by Submarine Landslides: Generation, Propagation, and Shoreline Impact....Pages 685-694
Calculations of Tsunamis from Submarine Landslides....Pages 695-704
Experiments on Tsunamis Generated by 3D Granular Landslides....Pages 705-718
Distal Turbidites and Tsunamigenic Landslides of Stromboli Volcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy)....Pages 719-731
Tsunamigenic Risks Associated with Mass Transport Complexes in Offshore Trinidad and Venezuela....Pages 733-744
Distribution and Tsunamigenic Potential of Submarine Landslides in the Gulf of Mexico....Pages 745-754
A Study of the Tsunami Effects of Two Landslides in the St. Lawrence Estuary....Pages 755-764
The Pliocene Shelburne Mass-Movement and Consequent Tsunami, Western Scotian Slope....Pages 765-775
Back Matter....Pages 777-786