Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Role of submarine slides in margin development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Fractal statistics of the Storegga Slide

      • Aaron Micallef, Christian Berndt, Douglas G. Masson, Dorrik A. V. Stow

      Pages 3-10

   3. Submarine Paleo-Failure Morphology On A Glaciated Continental Margin From 3d Seismic Data

      • J. S. Laberg, K. Andreassen

      Pages 11-18

   4. Slope Instability And Mass Transport Deposits On The Godavari River Delta, East Indian Margin From A Regional Geological Perspective

      • C. F. Forsberg, A. Solheim, T. J. Kvalstad, R. Vaidya, S. Mohanty

      Pages 19-27

   5. Repeated Instability Of The Nw African Margin Related To Buried Landslide Scarps

      • Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Sebastian Krastel, Douglas G. Masson, Russell B. Wynn

      Pages 29-36

   6. Along Slope Variations In Mass Failures And Relationships To Major Plio-Pleistocene Morphological Elements, Sw Labrador Sea

      • M. E. Deptuck, D. C. Mosher, D. C. Campbell, J. E. Hughes-Clarke, D. Noseworthy

      Pages 37-45

   7. Submarine Landslides Along The North Ecuador – South Colombia Convergent Margin: Possible Tectonic Control

      • G. Ratzov, M. Sosson, J. -Y. Collot, S. Migeon, F. Michaud, E. Lopez et al.

      Pages 47-55

   8. The Southern Flank Of The Storegga Slide: Imaging And Geomorphological Analyses Using 3d Seismic

      • J. Gafeira, J. Bulat, D. Evans

      Pages 57-65

   9. Submarine Mass Movements On An Active Fault System In The Central Gulf Of Corinth

      • M. Charalampakis, A. Stefatos, T. Hasiotis, G. Ferentinos

      Pages 67-75

   10. Analysis Of Multibeam Seafloor Imagery Of The Laurentian Fan And The 1929 Grand Banks Landslide Area

       • D. C. Mosher, David J. W. Piper

       Pages 77-88

   11. Landslide And Gravity Flow Features And Processes Of The Nazaré And Setúbal Canyons, West Iberian Margin

       • R. G. Arzola, Russell B. Wynn, Douglas G. Masson, P. P. E. Weaver, G. Lastras

       Pages 89-98

3. Mass waste evolution: From slump to distal turbidites

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. Experimental Studies Of Subaqueous Vs. Subaerial Debris Flows – Velocity Characteristics As A function Of The Ambient Fluid

      • H. Breien, M. Pagliardi, F. V. De Blasio, D. Issler, A. Elverhøi

      Pages 101-110

   3. The General Behavior Of Mass Gravity Flows In The Marine Environment

      • A. W. Niedoroda, C. W. Reed, H. Das, L. Hatchett

      Pages 111-118

   4. Submarine Spreading: Dynamics And Development

      • Aaron Micallef, Douglas G. Masson, Christian Berndt, Dorrik A. V. Stow

      Pages 119-127

   5. Flood-Induced Turbidites From Northern Hudson Bay And Western Hudson Strait: A Two-Pulse Record Of Lake Agassiz Final Outburst Flood?

      • Guillaume St-Onge, P. Lajeunesse

      Pages 129-137

   6. Underwater Rockfall Kinematics: A Preliminary Analysis

      • Jacques Locat, D. Turmel

      Pages 139-147

   7. Anthropogenic Turbidity Current Deposits In A Seismically Active Graben, The Gulf Of Corinth, Greece: A Useful Tool For Studying Turbidity Current Transport Processes

      • M. Iatrou, G. Ferentinos, G. Papatheodorou, David J. W. Piper, E. Tripsanas

      Pages 149-157

4. New techniques, approaches and challenges in submarine slope instability analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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Submarine mass movements and their consequences are of major concern for coastal communities and infrastructures but also for the exploitation and the development of seafloor resources. A tragic example of the vulnerability of coastal communities has been provided by the Indonesian tsunami of December 2004. Since 2005, as part of the scientific community efforts to minimize the impact of such natural disasters, the International Union of Geological Science (IUGS) and the United Nation, Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have sponsored an International Geoscience Program on Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences (IGCP-511). One of the main objectives of IGCP-511 members is to hold bi-annual symposia on these types of marine and coastal geohazards. The first symposium of this series was held in Nice (2003) and the second in Oslo (2005). This 3rd Symposium on submarine Mass Movements and Their consequences provides an opportunity to review the state of the art in risk evaluation from submarine landslides, deposit characterization and its implication for coastal and offshore development. By bringing together professionals from the industry and academia with a range of different expertise, these proceedings hope to cover the full spectrum of aspects related to subaqueous mass movements and related consequences. The interdisciplinary views gathered in this book, arising from the conference, help identify future challenges, mitigation strategies and better management of the seafloor. To that effect, the Santorini is quite a unique venue for scientists and engineers interested in marine and coastal geohazards.

• Coastal geohazard
• Debris flow
• Fundament
• Marine geohazard
• Natural hazards
• Penetrometer
• Rhe
• Sediment
• Slope stability analysis
• Tsunami modeling
• Turbidite
• soil

• Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece

  Vasilis Lykousis, Dimitris Sakellariou

• Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada

  Jacques Locat

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