Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-3973-4 (ISBN)
Audience: This book is of interest to any researcher in the field of marine and coastal geo-hazards. It will be useful for planners, scientists and engineers involved in the development of offshore and near-shore resources and also to those in charge of the management and mitigation of coastal hazards. For graduate students, this book provides an up-to-date vision of the process of submarine mass movements and their consequences from both a scientific and an engineering standpoint, and it includes a unique collection of the existing literature on marine geo-hazards.
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Section 1 — Fundamental aspects.- FLOW LIQUEFACTION FAILURE OF SUBMARINE SLOPES DUE TO MONOTONIC LOADINGS-AN EFFECTIVE STRESS APPROACH.- FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF RETROGRESSIVE FAILURE OF SUBMARINE SLOPES.- STABILITY CONDITIONS OF ACCUMULATIVE FORMS OF SEDIMENTS ON SUBMARINE SLOPES.- SIMULATING SUBMARINE SLOPE INSTABILITY INITIATION USING CENTRIFUGE MODEL TESTING.- LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL OF GASSY MARINE SANDS.- CYCLIC STRENGTH OF STRATIFIED SOIL SAMPLES.- TOWARDS AN APPROACH FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF RISK ASSOCIATED WITH SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS.- FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF LANDSLIDE IN DREDGED SLOPE.- NUMERICAL MODELING OF TSUNAMI GENERATION BY SUBAERIAL AND SUBMERGED LANDSLIDES.- DEVELOPING ENGINEERING DESIGN CRITERIA FOR MASS GRAVITY FLOWS IN DEEP OCEAN AND CONTINENTAL SLOPE ENVIRONMENTS.- THE DYNAMICS OF LIQUEFIED SEDIMENT FLOW UNDERGOING PROGRESSIVE SOLIDIFICATION.- EFFECT OF GAS HYDRATES DISSOCIATION ON SEAFLOOR SLOPE STABILITY.- WAVES AND RUN-UP GENERATED BY A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SLIDING MASS.- TSUNAMI SOURCE PARAMETERS OF SUBMARINE EARTHQUAKES AND SLIDES.- STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COHESIVE GRAVITY-FLOW DEPOSITS, AND A SEDIMENTOLOGICAL APPROACH ON THEIR FLOW MECHANISMS.- ROLE OF PORE-FLUID PRESSURE AND SLOPE ANGLE IN TRIGGERING SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS: NATURAL EXAMPLES AND PILOT EXPERIMENTAL MODELS.- HYDRO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF GASSY SOILS.- EVALUATING TSUNAMI HAZARDS FROM DEBRIS FLOWS.- PROBABILISTIC ANALYSES OF LANDSLIDE TSUNAMI HAZARDS.- AN INNOVATIVE DOUBLE CELL TRIAXIAL SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT OF THE VOLUME CHANGE OF GASEOUS OR UNSATURATED MARINE SOILS AND TWO OTHER ADVANCED SOIL TESTING SYSTEMS.- NUMERICAL MODELING OF SUBMARINE MASS-MOVEMENT GENERATED WAVES USING RANS MODEL.- DISPLACEMENT ANALYSIS OF SUBMARINE SLOPES USING ENHANCED NEWMARKMETHOD.- Section 2 — Altantic Ocean.- IMAGING THE AFEN SLIDE FROM COMMERCIAL 3D SEISMIC — METHODOLOGY AND COMPARISONS WITH HIGH-RESOLUTION DATA.- THE STOREGGA SLIDE COMPLEX; REPEATED LARGE SCALE SLIDING IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATIC CYCLICITY.- DYNAMICS, VELOCITY AND RUN-OUT OF THE GIANT STOREGGA SLIDE.- ISSUES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF GRAVITY MASS FLOW HAZARD IN THE STOREGGA AREA OFF THE WESTERN NORWEGIAN COAST.- SHEAR-STRENGTH SIGNATURES OF MASS MOVEMENTS, CONTINENTAL SLOPE OF CAMPOS BASIN, BRAZIL.- PRECONDITIONS LEADING TO THE HOLOCENE TRÆNADJUPET SLIDE OFFSHORE NORWAY.- SLOPE STABILITY ASSESSMENT OF THE TRÆNADJUPET SLIDE AREA OFFSHORE THE MID-NORWEGIAN MARGIN.- STABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE HUDSON APRON SLOPE, OFF NEW JERSEY, U.S.A..- SLOPE FAILURES IN THE FAROE — SHETLAND CHANNEL.- A SYNTHESIS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS ON THE EASTERN CANADIAN MARGIN.- THE CHRONOLOGY AND RECURRENCE OF SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS ON THE CONTINENTAL SLOPE OFF SOUTHEASTERN CANADA.- INTERPLAY BETWEEN SALT ACTIVITIES AND SLOPE INSTABILITIES, BRYANT CANYON AREA, NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO.- THE AFEN SLIDE — A MULTISTAGED SLOPE FAILURE IN THE FAROE-SHETLAND CHANNEL.- CANARY ISLANDS LANDSLIDES AND TSUNAMI GENERATION: CAN WE USE TURBIDITE DEPOSITS TO INTERPRET LANDSLIDE PROCESSES?.- Section 3 — Pacific Ocean.- SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES IN SOCIETY AND AUSTRAL ISLANDS, FRENCH POLYNESIA: EVOLUTION WITH THE AGE OF EDIFICES.- MASS MOVEMENT ALONG THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA MARGIN AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR TSUNAMI GENERATION.- CHARACTERISTICS OF SEVERAL TSUNAMIGENIC SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES.- CHARACTERISTICS OF LANDSLIDE GENERATED TSUNAMIS FROM OBSERVATIONAL DATA.- SLOPE FAILURES AND PALEOSEISMICITY, EFFINGHAM INLET, SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.- ARCHITECTURE AND FAILUREMECHANISM OF THE OFFSHORE SLUMP RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 1998 PAPUA NEW GUINEA TSUNAMI.- Section 4 — Inners seas.- SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENT ON THE EBRO SLOPE.- MORPHOBATHYMETRY OF SMALL-SCALE MUD RELIEFS ON THE ADRIATIC SHELF.- CANNIBALIZATION OF A CONTINENTAL MARGIN BY REGIONAL SCALE MASS WASTING: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE CENTRAL TYRRHENIAN SEA.- EVOLUTIONARY GRAVITY FLOW DEPOSITS IN THE MIDDLE TURONIAN — EARLY CONIACIAN SOUTHERN PROVENCE BASIN (SE FRANCE): ORIGINS AND DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES.- LESSONS FROM SEA-FLOOR AND SUBSEA-FLOOR IMAGERY OF THE BIG’95 DEBRIS FLOW SCAR AND DEPOSIT.- PRODELTA SLOPE STABILITY AND ASSOCIATED COASTAL HAZARDS IN TECTONIC ALLY ACTIVE MARGINS: GULF OF CORINTH (NE MEDITERRANEAN).- VERY HIGH RESOLUTION 3D SEISMIC IMAGING OF A COMPLEX SHELF STRUCTURE IN THE ADRIATIC SEA.- DETAILED ANATOMY OF LATE-HOLOCENE DEPOSITS ON THE ADRIATIC SHELF FROM 3D VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC DATA (TRIAD SURVEY).- SMALL SCALE PRESENT DAY TURBIDITY CURRENTS IN A TECTONICALLY ACTIVE SUBMARINE GRABEN, THE GULF OF CORINTH (GREECE): THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN DISPERSING MINE TAILINGS AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO BASIN FILLING.- SUBMARINE SLIDES DURING RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE: TWO EXAMPLES FROM THE EASTERN TYRRHENIAN MARGIN.- THE BIG’95 DEBRIS FLOW AND ADJACENT UNFAILED SEDIMENTS IN THE NW MEDITERRANEAN SEA: GEOTECHNICAL SEDIMENTOLOGICAL PROPERTIES, AND DATING.- Section 5 — Fjords.- THE ROLE OF FREE GAS IN THE ACTIVATION OF SUBMARINE SLIDES IN FTNNEIDFJORD.- THE POINTE-DU-FORT MASS MOVEMENT DEPOSITS, UPPER SAGUENAY FJORD, CANADA: A MULTIPHASE BUILD-UP.- SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS IN THE UPPER SAGUENAY FJORD, (QUÉBEC, CANADA), TRIGGERED BY THE 1663 EARTHQUAKE.- CHARACTERISATION OF A SUBMARINE FLOW-SLIDE AT POINTE-DU-FORT, SAGUENAY FJORD, QUEBEC, CANADA.- THE 1996 FINNEIDFJORD SLIDE;SEAFLOOR FAILURE AND SLIDE DYNAMICS.- Authors Index.
Reihe/Serie | Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research ; 19 |
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Zusatzinfo | XII, 542 p. |
Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik | |
ISBN-10 | 94-010-3973-9 / 9401039739 |
ISBN-13 | 978-94-010-3973-4 / 9789401039734 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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