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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)
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Front Matter
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Physical Properties of Sediments and Slope Stability Assessment
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Seafloor Geomorphology for Trigger Mechanisms and Landslide Dynamics
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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
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, Department of Earth Resources Engineerin, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Yasuhiro Yamada
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Fukada Geological Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Kiichiro Kawamura
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Geological Survey of Japan, Ibaraki, Japan
Ken Ikehara
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University of Tsukuba, Tsukubamirai, Japan
Yujiro Ogawa
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Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Roger Urgeles
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Natural Resources Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Geological Survey of Canada, Dartmouth, Canada
David Mosher
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Woods Hole Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, USA
Jason Chaytor
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, Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Strasser
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences
Book Subtitle: 5th International Symposium
Editors: Yasuhiro Yamada, Kiichiro Kawamura, Ken Ikehara, Yujiro Ogawa, Roger Urgeles, David Mosher, Jason Chaytor, … Michael Strasser
Series Title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2161-6Published: 29 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7814-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2162-3Published: 13 October 2011
Series ISSN: 1878-9897
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6959
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 769
Topics: Oceanography, Physical Geography, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Sedimentology