Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences (eBook)

1  Submarine Mass Movements and Their ConsequencesPart I Physical Properties of Sediments and Slope Stability Assessment2  Risk Assessment for Earthquake-Induced Submarine Slides 3  Shallow Landslides and Their Dynamics in Coastal and Deepwater Environments, Norway4  Physical Properties and Age of Continental Slope Sediments Dredged from the Eastern Australian Continental Margin – Implications for Timing of Slope Failure5  Submarine Landslides on the Upper Southeast Australian Passive Continental Margin – Preliminary Findings6  Development and Potential Triggering Mechanisms for a Large Holocene Landslide in the LowerSt. Lawrence Estuary7  Spatially Fixed Initial Break Point and Fault-Rock Development in a Landslide Area8  Pore Water Geochemistry as a Tool for Identifying and Dating Recent Mass-Transport Deposits9  An In-Situ Free-Fall Piezocone Penetrometer for Characterizing Soft and Sensitive Clays at Finneidfjord (Northern Norway)10  Static and Cyclic Shear Strength of Cohesive and Non-cohesive Sediments11  Upstream Migration of Knickpoints: Geotechnical ConsiderationsPart II Seafloor Geomorphology for Trigger Mechanisms and Landslide Dynamics12  A Reevaluation of the Munson-Nygren-Retriever Submarine Landslide Complex, Georges Bank Lower Slope, Western North Atlantic13  Submarine Landslides in Arctic Sedimentation: Canada Basin14  Extensive Erosion of the Deep Seafloor – Implications for the Behavior of Flows Resulting from Continental Slope Instability15  Investigations of Slides at the Upper Continental Slope Off Vesterålen, North Norway16  Dakar Slide Offshore Senegal, NW-Africa: Interaction of Stacked Giant Mass Wasting Events and Canyon Evolution17  Large-Scale Mass Wasting on the Northwest African Continental Margin: Some General Implications for Mass Wasting on Passive Continental Margins18  Deep-Seated Bedrock Landslides and Submarine Canyon Evolution in an Active Tectonic Margin: Cook Strait, New Zealand19  Polyphase Emplacement of a 30 km3 Blocky Debris Avalanche and Its Role in Slope-Gully Development20  Slope Failure and Canyon Development Along the Northern South China Sea Margin21  Distinguishing Sediment Bedforms from Sediment Deformation in Prodeltas of the Mediterranean Sea22  Hydroacoustic Analysis of Mass Wasting Deposits in Lake Ohrid (FYR Macedonia/Albania)23  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 HazardsPart III Role of Fluid Flow in Slope Instability24  A Review of Overpressure, Flow Focusing, and Slope Failure25  How Do ~2° Slopes Fail in Areas of Slow Sedimentation? A Sensitivity Study on the Influence of Accumulation Rate and Permeability on Submarine Slope Stability26  The BGR Slide Off Costa Rica: Preconditioning Factors, Trigger, and Slide Dynamics 27  Detailed Observation of Topography and Geologic Architecture of a Submarine Landslide Scar in a Toe of an Accretionary Prism28  Possible Ground Instability Factor Implied by Slumping and Dewatering Structures in High-Methane-Flux Continental Slope29  Identification of Weak Layers and Their Role for the Stability of Slopes at Finneidfjord, Northern Norway30 Mass Movements in a Transform Margin Setting: The Example of the Eastern Demerara RisePart IV Mechanics of Mass-Wasting in Subduction Margins31  Slope Failures in Analogue Models of Accretionary Wedges32  Systematic Development of Submarine Slope Failures at Subduction Margins: Fossil Record of Accretion-Related Slope Failure in the Miocene Hota Accretionary Complex, Central Japan33  Morphologic Expression of Accretionary Processes and Recent Submarine Landslides Along the Southwestern Pacific Margin of Colombia34  Submarine Mass Wasting Off Southern Central Chile: Distribution and Possible Mechanisms of Slope Failure at an Active Continental Margin35  An Overview of the Role of Long-Term Tectonics and Incoming Plate Structure on Segmentation of Submarine Mass Wasting Phenomena Along the Middle America TrenchPart V Post-Failure Dynamics36  Dynamics of Submarine Liquefied Sediment Flows: Theory, Experiments and Analysis of Field Behavior37  Undrained Sediment Loading Key to Long-Runout Submarine Mass Movements: Evidence from the Caribbean Volcanic Arc38  Impact Drag Forces on Pipelines Caused by Submarine Glide Blocks or Out-Runner Blocks39  A Surging Behaviour of Glacigenic Debris Flows40  Failure Processes and Gravity-Flow Transformation Revealed by High-Resolution AUV Swath Bathymetry on the Nice Continental Slope (Ligurian Sea)41  Submarine Landslides, Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope: Insights into Transport Processes from Fabrics and Geotechnical Data Part VI Landslide Generated Tsunamis42  Tsunamis Generated by Submarine Landslides43  Micro-bathymetric Evidence for the Effect of Submarine Mass Movement on Tsunami Generation During the 2009 Suruga Bay Earthquake, Japan44  Re-evaluation of the 1771 Meiwa Tsunami Source Model, Southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan45  The 1978 Quick Clay Landslide at Rissa, Mid Norway: Subaqueous Morphology and Tsunami Simulations46  Geowave Validation with Case Studies: Accurate Geology Reproduces Observations47  Tsunami Hazards for Nuclear Power Plants: Mass Failures, Uncertainty, and WarningPart VII Witnessing and Quasi-Witnessing of Slope Failures48  Submarine Slope Response to Earthquake Shaking Within Western Sagami Bay, Central Japan49  Discovery of Submarine Landslide Evidence Due to the 2009 Suruga Bay Earthquake50  Settling of Earthquake-Induced Turbidity on the Accretionary Prism Slope of the Central Nankai Subduction Zone51  Study of Recent Small-Scale Landslides in Geologically Active Marine Areas Through Repeated Multibeam Surveys: Examples from the Southern Italy Part VIII Architecture of Mass Transport Deposits/Complexes52  Sedimentary Mélanges and Fossil Mass-Transport Complexes: A Key for Better Understanding Submarine Mass Movements?53  The Specchio Unit (Northern Apennines, Italy): An Ancient Mass Transport Complex Originated from Near-Coastal Areas in an Intra-Slope Setting54  Internal Stress Fields of a Large-Scale Submarine Debris Flow55  Distribution of Submarine Mass Movement Deposits: An Exhumed Basin Perspective56  Seismic-Scale Rafted and Remnant Blocks over Salt Ridges in the Espírito Santo Basin, Brazil57  Permian and Triassic Submarine Landslide Deposits in a Jurassic Accretionary Complex in Central Japan58  Systematic Spatial Variations in the Fabric and Physical Properties of Mass-Transport Deposits in the Ursa Region, Northern Gulf of Mexico59  Records of Submarine Landslides in Subduction Input Recovered by IODP Expedition 322, Nankai Trough, Japan60  Scientific Drilling of Mass-Transport Deposits in the Nankai Accretionary Wedge: First Results from IODP Expedition 33361  Rock-Magnetostratigraphy of Hawaiian Archipelagic Sediments: Timing of Giant Submarine Landslides of the Hawaiian Ridge62  Gravity Flow Deposits in the Deep Rockall Trough, Northeast AtlanticPart IX Relevance of Natural Climate Change in Triggering Slope Failures63  Submarine Mass Wasting in Isfjorden, Spitsbergen64  Comparison of Quaternary Glaciogenic Debris Flows with Blocky Mass-Transport Deposits in Orphan Basin, Offshore Eastern Canada65  Recent Submarine Landslides on the Continental Slope of Storfjorden and Kveithola Trough-Mouth Fans (North West Barents Sea)66  One Million Years of Climatic Generated Landslide Events on the Northwestern Barents Sea Continental MarginAuthor IndexSubject Index