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Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

5th International Symposium

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Yasuhiro Yamada

    1. , Department of Earth Resources Engineerin, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Kiichiro Kawamura

    1. Fukada Geological Institute, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Ken Ikehara

    1. Geological Survey of Japan, Ibaraki, Japan

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  4. Yujiro Ogawa

    1. University of Tsukuba, Tsukubamirai, Japan

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  5. Roger Urgeles

    1. Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

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  6. David Mosher

    1. Natural Resources Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Geological Survey of Canada, Dartmouth, Canada

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  7. Jason Chaytor

    1. Woods Hole Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, USA

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  8. Michael Strasser

    1. , Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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  • Unique subject that is addressed in very few other publications and interest is growing rapidly
  • State of knowledge of submarine mass movements and their consequences
  • Engineering and environmental considerations of submarine slope failures Tsunami potential of submarine mass movements

Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 31)

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Table of contents (66 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

    • Yasuhiro Yamada, Kiichiro Kawamura, Ken Ikehara, Yujiro Ogawa, Roger Urgeles, David Mosher et al.
    Pages 1-12

  3. Physical Properties of Sediments and Slope Stability Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Risk Assessment for Earthquake-Induced Submarine Slides

      • Farrokh Nadim
      Pages 15-27

    3. Shallow Landslides and Their Dynamics in Coastal and Deepwater Environments, Norway

      • Maarten Vanneste, Jean-Sebastien L’Heureux, Nicole Baeten, Jo Brendryen, Mark E. Vardy, Alois Steiner et al.
      Pages 29-41

    4. Physical Properties and Age of Continental Slope Sediments Dredged from the Eastern Australian Continental Margin – Implications for Timing of Slope Failure

      • Thomas Hubble, Phyllis Yu, David Airey, Samantha Clarke, Ron Boyd, John Keene et al.
      Pages 43-54

    5. Submarine Landslides on the Upper Southeast Australian Passive Continental Margin – Preliminary Findings

      • Samantha Clarke, Thomas Hubble, David Airey, Phyllis Yu, Ron Boyd, John Keene et al.
      Pages 55-66

    6. Development and Potential Triggering Mechanisms for a Large Holocene Landslide in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary

      • Genevieve Cauchon-Voyer, Jacques Locat, Guillaume St-Onge, Serge Leroueil, Patrick Lajeunesse
      Pages 67-76

    7. Spatially Fixed Initial Break Point and Fault-Rock Development in a Landslide Area

      • Arito Sakaguchi, Shunji Yokoyama, Yoshitaka Hashimoto, Tomomasa Yamada, Akio Tanaka, Kohtaro Ujiie et al.
      Pages 77-86

    8. Pore Water Geochemistry as a Tool for Identifying and Dating Recent Mass-Transport Deposits

      • Susann Henkel, Tilmann Schwenk, Till J. J. Hanebuth, Michael Strasser, Natascha Riedinger, Michael Formolo et al.
      Pages 87-97

    9. An In-Situ Free-Fall Piezocone Penetrometer for Characterizing Soft and Sensitive Clays at Finneidfjord (Northern Norway)

      • Alois Steiner, Jean-Sebastien L’Heureux, Achim Kopf, Maarten Vanneste, Oddvar Longva, Matthias Lange et al.
      Pages 99-109

    10. Static and Cyclic Shear Strength of Cohesive and Non-cohesive Sediments

      • Gauvain Wiemer, Anna Reusch, Michael Strasser, Stefan Kreiter, Daniel Otto, Tobias Mörz et al.
      Pages 111-121

    11. Upstream Migration of Knickpoints: Geotechnical Considerations

      • Dominique Turmel, Jacques Locat, Gary Parker
      Pages 123-132

  4. Seafloor Geomorphology for Trigger Mechanisms and Landslide Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. A Reevaluation of the Munson-Nygren-Retriever Submarine Landslide Complex, Georges Bank Lower Slope, Western North Atlantic

      • Jason D. Chaytor, David C. Twichell, Uri S. ten Brink
      Pages 135-146

    3. Submarine Landslides in Arctic Sedimentation: Canada Basin

      • David C. Mosher, John Shimeld, Deborah Hutchinson, Nina Lebedeva-Ivanova, C. Borden Chapman
      Pages 147-157

    4. Extensive Erosion of the Deep Seafloor – Implications for the Behavior of Flows Resulting from Continental Slope Instability

      • Jan Sverre Laberg, Hilde B. Johannessen, Matthias Forwick, Michael Ivanov, Tore O. Vorren
      Pages 159-166

    5. Investigations of Slides at the Upper Continental Slope Off Vesterålen, North Norway

      • Leif Rise, Shyam Chand, Haflidi Haflidason, Jean Sebastian L’Heureux, Berit Oline Hjelstuen, Valerie Bellec et al.
      Pages 167-176

    6. Dakar Slide Offshore Senegal, NW-Africa: Interaction of Stacked Giant Mass Wasting Events and Canyon Evolution

      • Mathias Meyer, Jacob Geersen, Sebastian Krastel, Tilmann Schwenk, Daniel Winkelmann
      Pages 177-188

    7. Large-Scale Mass Wasting on the Northwest African Continental Margin: Some General Implications for Mass Wasting on Passive Continental Margins

      • Sebastian Krastel, Russell B. Wynn, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Jacob Geersen, Rüdiger Henrich, Mathias Meyer et al.
      Pages 189-199
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About this book

Submarine mass movements represent major offshore geohazards due to their destructive and tsunami-generation potential.  This potential poses a threat to human life as well as to coastal, nearshore and offshore engineering structures. Recent examples of catastrophic submarine landslide events that affected human populations (including tsunamis) are numerous; e.g., Nice airport in 1979, Papua-New Guinea in 1998, Stromboli in 2002, Finneidfjord in 1996, and the 2006 and 2009 failures in the submarine cable network around Taiwan. The Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 also generated submarine landslides that may have amplified effects of the devastating tsunami. Given that 30% of the World’s population live within 60 km of the coast, the hazard posed by submarine landslides is expected to grow as global sea level rises. This elevated awareness of the need for better understanding of submarine landslides is coupled with great advances in submarine mapping, sampling and monitoring technologies. Laboratory analogue and numerical modeling capabilities have also developed significantly of late. Multibeam sonar, 3D seismic reflection, and remote and autonomous underwater vehicle technologies provide hitherto unparalleled imagery of the geology beneath the oceans, permitting investigation of submarine landslide deposits in great detail. Increased and new access to drilling, coring, in situ measurements and monitoring devices allows for ground-thruth of geophysical data and provides access to samples for geotechnical laboratory experiments and information on in situ strength and effective stress conditions of underwater slopes susceptible to fail. Great advances in numerical simulation techniques of submarine landslide kinematics and tsunami propagation, particularly since the 2004 Sumatra tsunami, have also lead to increased understanding and predictability of submarine landslide consequences.

This volume consists of the latest scientificresearch by international experts in geological, geophysical, engineering and environmental aspects of submarine mass failure, focused on understanding the full spectrum of challenges presented by submarine mass movements and their consequences.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Earth Resources Engineerin, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Yasuhiro Yamada

  • Fukada Geological Institute, Tokyo, Japan

    Kiichiro Kawamura

  • Geological Survey of Japan, Ibaraki, Japan

    Ken Ikehara

  • University of Tsukuba, Tsukubamirai, Japan

    Yujiro Ogawa

  • Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

    Roger Urgeles

  • Natural Resources Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Geological Survey of Canada, Dartmouth, Canada

    David Mosher

  • Woods Hole Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, USA

    Jason Chaytor

  • , Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Michael Strasser

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