Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: 3 International Symposium

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Fractal statistics of the Storegga Slide....Pages 3-10
Submarine Paleo-Failure Morphology On A Glaciated Continental Margin From 3d Seismic Data....Pages 11-18
Slope Instability And Mass Transport Deposits On The Godavari River Delta, East Indian Margin From A Regional Geological Perspective....Pages 19-27
Repeated Instability Of The Nw African Margin Related To Buried Landslide Scarps....Pages 29-36
Along Slope Variations In Mass Failures And Relationships To Major Plio-Pleistocene Morphological Elements, Sw Labrador Sea....Pages 37-45
Submarine Landslides Along The North Ecuador – South Colombia Convergent Margin: Possible Tectonic Control....Pages 47-55
The Southern Flank Of The Storegga Slide: Imaging And Geomorphological Analyses Using 3d Seismic....Pages 57-65
Submarine Mass Movements On An Active Fault System In The Central Gulf Of Corinth....Pages 67-75
Analysis Of Multibeam Seafloor Imagery Of The Laurentian Fan And The 1929 Grand Banks Landslide Area....Pages 77-88
Landslide And Gravity Flow Features And Processes Of The Nazaré And Setúbal Canyons, West Iberian Margin....Pages 89-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Experimental Studies Of Subaqueous Vs. Subaerial Debris Flows – Velocity Characteristics As A function Of The Ambient Fluid....Pages 101-110
The General Behavior Of Mass Gravity Flows In The Marine Environment....Pages 111-118
Submarine Spreading: Dynamics And Development....Pages 119-127
Flood-Induced Turbidites From Northern Hudson Bay And Western Hudson Strait: A Two-Pulse Record Of Lake Agassiz Final Outburst Flood?....Pages 129-137
Underwater Rockfall Kinematics: A Preliminary Analysis....Pages 139-147
Anthropogenic Turbidity Current Deposits In A Seismically Active Graben, The Gulf Of Corinth, Greece: A Useful Tool For Studying Turbidity Current Transport Processes....Pages 149-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Probability Study On Submarine Slope Stability....Pages 161-170
Marine Deep-Water Free-Fall Cpt Measurements For Landslide Characterisation Off Crete, Greece (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) Part 1: A New 4000M Cone Penetrometer....Pages 171-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Linking Geotechnical And Rheological Properties From Failure To Post-Failure: The Pointe-Du-Fort Slide, Saguenay Fjord, Québec....Pages 181-189
Rheological Properties Of Fine-Grained Sediments In Modeling Submarine Mass Movements: The Role Of Texture....Pages 191-198
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Marine Deep-Water Free-Fall Cpt Measurements For Landslide Characterisation Off Crete, Greece (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) Part 2: Initial Data From The Western Cretan Sea....Pages 199-208
Recursive Failure Of The Gulf Of Mexico Continental Slope: Timing And Causes....Pages 209-219
Geotechnical Considerations Of Submarine Canyon Formation: The Case Of Cap De Creus Canyon....Pages 221-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Submarine Mass Movements In The Betsiamites Area, Lower St. Lawrence Estuary, Québec, Canada....Pages 233-241
Submerged Landslide Morphologies In The Albano Lake (Rome, Italy)....Pages 243-250
Dynamics Of The Deltaic Canyon Area Of The Rv. Chorokhi, Georgia....Pages 251-258
The 1990 Submarine Slide Outside The Nidelv River Mouth, Trondheim, Norway....Pages 259-267
Submarine Slope Failures Near Seward, Alaska, During The M9.2 1964 Earthquake....Pages 269-278
The Ad 1881 Earthquake-Triggered Slump And Late Holocene Flood-Induced Turbidites From Proglacial Lake Bramant, Western French Alps....Pages 279-286
Morphosedimentology Of Submarine Mass-Movements And Gravity Flows Offshore Sept-Îles, Nw Gulf Of St. Lawrence (Québec, Canada)....Pages 287-296
Sediment Failure Processes In Active Grabens: The Western Gulf Of Corinth (Greece)....Pages 297-305
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
High Frequency Sediment Failures In A Submarine Volcanic Environment: The Santorini (Thera) Basin In The Aegean Sea....Pages 309-316
Sediment Stability Conditions West Of Milos Island, West Hellenic Volcanic Arc....Pages 317-324
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Mass Wasting Processes - Offshore Sumatra....Pages 327-336
Slope Failures Of The Flanks Of The Southern Cape Verde Islands....Pages 337-345
Triggering Factors And Tsunamigenic Potential Of A Large Submarine Mass Failure On The Western Nile Margin (Rosetta Area, Egypt)....Pages 347-355
Reassessment Of Seismically Induced, Tsunamigenic Submarine Slope Failures In Port Valdez, Alaska, USA....Pages 357-365
Towards The Mitigation Of The Tsunami Risk By Submarine Mass Failures In The Gulf Of Corinth: The Xylocastro Resort Town Case Study....Pages 367-375
Probabilistic Smf Tsunami Hazard Assessment For The Upper East Coast Of The United States....Pages 377-385
Role Of Soil Behavior On The Initial Kinematics Of Tsunamigenic Slides....Pages 387-394
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Revisiting Submarine Mass Movements Along The U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin: Implications For Tsunami Hazards....Pages 395-403
Tsunamigenic Landslides In The Western Corinth Gulf: Numerical Scenarios....Pages 405-414
Tsunamis Generated By Coastal And Submarine Landslides In The Mediterranean Sea....Pages 415-422
Back Matter....Pages 423-424