Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: 5th International Symposium

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Risk Assessment for Earthquake-Induced Submarine Slides....Pages 15-27
Shallow Landslides and Their Dynamics in Coastal and Deepwater Environments, Norway....Pages 29-41
Physical Properties and Age of Continental Slope Sediments Dredged from the Eastern Australian Continental Margin – Implications for Timing of Slope Failure....Pages 43-54
Submarine Landslides on the Upper Southeast Australian Passive Continental Margin – Preliminary Findings....Pages 55-66
Development and Potential Triggering Mechanisms for a Large Holocene Landslide in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary....Pages 67-76
Spatially Fixed Initial Break Point and Fault-Rock Development in a Landslide Area....Pages 77-86
Pore Water Geochemistry as a Tool for Identifying and Dating Recent Mass-Transport Deposits....Pages 87-97
An In-Situ Free-Fall Piezocone Penetrometer for Characterizing Soft and Sensitive Clays at Finneidfjord (Northern Norway)....Pages 99-109
Static and Cyclic Shear Strength of Cohesive and Non-cohesive Sediments....Pages 111-121
Upstream Migration of Knickpoints: Geotechnical Considerations....Pages 123-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
A Reevaluation of the Munson-Nygren-Retriever Submarine Landslide Complex, Georges Bank Lower Slope, Western North Atlantic....Pages 135-146
Submarine Landslides in Arctic Sedimentation: Canada Basin....Pages 147-157
Extensive Erosion of the Deep Seafloor – Implications for the Behavior of Flows Resulting from Continental Slope Instability....Pages 159-166
Investigations of Slides at the Upper Continental Slope Off Vesterålen, North Norway....Pages 167-176
Dakar Slide Offshore Senegal, NW-Africa: Interaction of Stacked Giant Mass Wasting Events and Canyon Evolution....Pages 177-188
Large-Scale Mass Wasting on the Northwest African Continental Margin: Some General Implications for Mass Wasting on Passive Continental Margins....Pages 189-199
Deep-Seated Bedrock Landslides and Submarine Canyon Evolution in an Active Tectonic Margin: Cook Strait, New Zealand....Pages 201-212
Polyphase Emplacement of a 30 km 3 Blocky Debris Avalanche and Its Role in Slope-Gully Development....Pages 213-222
Slope Failure and Canyon Development Along the Northern South China Sea Margin....Pages 223-232
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Distinguishing Sediment Bedforms from Sediment Deformation in Prodeltas of the Mediterranean Sea....Pages 233-244
Hydroacoustic Analysis of Mass Wasting Deposits in Lake Ohrid (FYR Macedonia/Albania)....Pages 245-253
New Evidence of Holocene Mass Wasting Events in Recent Volcanic Lakes from the French Massif Central (Lakes Pavin, Montcineyre and Chauvet) and Implications for Natural Hazards....Pages 255-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
A Review of Overpressure, Flow Focusing, and Slope Failure....Pages 267-276
How Do ∼2° Slopes Fail in Areas of Slow Sedimentation? A Sensitivity Study on the Influence of Accumulation Rate and Permeability on Submarine Slope Stability....Pages 277-287
The BGR Slide Off Costa Rica: Preconditioning Factors, Trigger, and Slide Dynamics....Pages 289-299
Detailed Observation of Topography and Geologic Architecture of a Submarine Landslide Scar in a Toe of an Accretionary Prism....Pages 301-309
Possible Ground Instability Factor Implied by Slumping and Dewatering Structures in High-Methane-Flux Continental Slope....Pages 311-320
Identification of Weak Layers and Their Role for the Stability of Slopes at Finneidfjord, Northern Norway....Pages 321-330
Mass Movements in a Transform Margin Setting: The Example of the Eastern Demerara Rise....Pages 331-339
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
Slope Failures in Analogue Models of Accretionary Wedges....Pages 343-353
Systematic Development of Submarine Slope Failures at Subduction Margins: Fossil Record of Accretion-Related Slope Failure in the Miocene Hota Accretionary Complex, Central Japan....Pages 355-364
Morphologic Expression of Accretionary Processes and Recent Submarine Landslides Along the Southwestern Pacific Margin of Colombia....Pages 365-377
Submarine Mass Wasting Off Southern Central Chile: Distribution and Possible Mechanisms of Slope Failure at an Active Continental Margin....Pages 379-389
An Overview of the Role of Long-Term Tectonics and Incoming Plate Structure on Segmentation of Submarine Mass Wasting Phenomena Along the Middle America Trench....Pages 391-402
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Dynamics of Submarine Liquefied Sediment Flows: Theory, Experiments and Analysis of Field Behavior....Pages 405-416
Undrained Sediment Loading Key to Long-Runout Submarine Mass Movements: Evidence from the Caribbean Volcanic Arc....Pages 417-428
Impact Drag Forces on Pipelines Caused by Submarine Glide Blocks or Out-Runner Blocks....Pages 429-439
A Surging Behaviour of Glacigenic Debris Flows....Pages 441-450
Failure Processes and Gravity-Flow Transformation Revealed by High-Resolution AUV Swath Bathymetry on the Nice Continental Slope (Ligurian Sea)....Pages 451-461
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Submarine Landslides, Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope: Insights into Transport Processes from Fabrics and Geotechnical Data....Pages 463-472
Front Matter....Pages 473-473
Tsunamis Generated by Submarine Landslides....Pages 475-484
Micro-bathymetric Evidence for the Effect of Submarine Mass Movement on Tsunami Generation During the 2009 Suruga Bay Earthquake, Japan....Pages 485-495
Re-evaluation of the 1771 Meiwa Tsunami Source Model, Southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan....Pages 497-506
The 1978 Quick Clay Landslide at Rissa, Mid Norway: Subaqueous Morphology and Tsunami Simulations....Pages 507-516
Geowave Validation with Case Studies: Accurate Geology Reproduces Observations....Pages 517-524
Tsunami Hazards for Nuclear Power Plants: Mass Failures, Uncertainty, and Warning....Pages 525-535
Front Matter....Pages 537-537
Submarine Slope Response to Earthquake Shaking Within Western Sagami Bay, Central Japan....Pages 539-547
Discovery of Submarine Landslide Evidence Due to the 2009 Suruga Bay Earthquake....Pages 549-559
Settling of Earthquake-Induced Turbidity on the Accretionary Prism Slope of the Central Nankai Subduction Zone....Pages 561-571
Study of Recent Small-Scale Landslides in Geologically Active Marine Areas Through Repeated Multibeam Surveys: Examples from the Southern Italy....Pages 573-582
Front Matter....Pages 583-583
Sedimentary Mélanges and Fossil Mass-Transport Complexes: A Key for Better Understanding Submarine Mass Movements?....Pages 585-594
The Specchio Unit (Northern Apennines, Italy): An Ancient Mass Transport Complex Originated from Near-Coastal Areas in an Intra-Slope Setting....Pages 595-605
Internal Stress Fields of a Large-Scale Submarine Debris Flow....Pages 607-617
Distribution of Submarine Mass Movement Deposits: An Exhumed Basin Perspective....Pages 619-628
Seismic-Scale Rafted and Remnant Blocks over Salt Ridges in the Espírito Santo Basin, Brazil....Pages 629-638
Permian and Triassic Submarine Landslide Deposits in a Jurassic Accretionary Complex in Central Japan....Pages 639-648
Systematic Spatial Variations in the Fabric and Physical Properties of Mass-Transport Deposits in the Ursa Region, Northern Gulf of Mexico....Pages 649-658
Records of Submarine Landslides in Subduction Input Recovered by IODP Expedition 322, Nankai Trough, Japan....Pages 659-670
Scientific Drilling of Mass-Transport Deposits in the Nankai Accretionary Wedge: First Results from IODP Expedition 333....Pages 671-681
Front Matter....Pages 583-583
Rock-Magnetostratigraphy of Hawaiian Archipelagic Sediments: Timing of Giant Submarine Landslides of the Hawaiian Ridge....Pages 683-693
Gravity Flow Deposits in the Deep Rockall Trough, Northeast Atlantic....Pages 695-707
Front Matter....Pages 709-709
Submarine Mass Wasting in Isfjorden, Spitsbergen....Pages 711-722
Comparison of Quaternary Glaciogenic Debris Flows with Blocky Mass-Transport Deposits in Orphan Basin, Offshore Eastern Canada....Pages 723-733
Recent Submarine Landslides on the Continental Slope of Storfjorden and Kveithola Trough-Mouth Fans (North West Barents Sea)....Pages 735-745
One Million Years of Climatic Generated Landslide Events on the Northwestern Barents Sea Continental Margin....Pages 747-756
Back Matter....Pages 757-769