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Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research 28 - Incl DVD, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research 28

Erschienen am 03.11.2009, Auflage: 1/2009
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ISBN/EAN: 9789048130702
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: xxx, 786 S., 343 farbige Illustr., 786 p. 343 illu
Einband: gebundenes Buch

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Inhaltsangabe1.- Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences.- Submarine Mass Movements: Triggers, Mechanics, and Geotechnical Properties.- Interplay Between Gas Hydrates and Submarine Slope Failure.- Advanced Dynamic Soil Testing - Introducing the New Marum Dynamic Triaxial Testing Device.- Clustering of Geotechnical Properties of Marine Sediments Through Self-Organizing Maps: An Example from the Zakynthos Canyon-Valley System, Greece.- Identification of Shear Zones and Their Causal Mechanisms Using a Combination of Cone Penetration Tests and Seismic Data in the Eastern Niger Delta.- Mass Wasting Dynamics at the Deeper Slope of the Ligurian Margin (Southern France).- Characterization of Micaceous Sand for Investigation of a Subsea Mass Movement.- Estimating Drag Forces on Suspended and Laid-on-Seafloor Pipelines Caused by Clay-Rich Submarine Debris Flow Impact.- Experimental Investigation of Subaqueous Clay-Rich Debris Flows, Turbidity Generation and Sediment Deposition.- The Kinematics of a Debris Avalanche on the Sumatra Margin.- 3D Numerical Modelling of Submerged and Coastal Landslide Propagation.- Peculiar Morphologies of Subaqueous Landslide Deposits and Their Relationship to Flow Dynamics.- Large Landslides on Passive Continental Margins: Processes, Hypotheses and Outstanding Questions.- Origin of Overpressure and Slope Failure in the Ursa Region, Northern Gulf of Mexico.- History of Pore Pressure Build Up and Slope Instability in Mud-Dominated Sediments of Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope.- How Does Fluid Inflow Geometry Control Slope Destabilization?.- Geochemical Evidence for Groundwater-Charging of Slope Sediments: The Nice Airport 1979 Landslide and Tsunami Revisited.- Modeling Slope Instability as Shear Rupture Propagation in a Saturated Porous Medium.- Submarine Mass Movements: Case Studies and Hazard Assessment.- Submarine Mass Transport Within Monterey Canyon: Benthic Disturbance Controls on the Distribution of Chemosynthetic Biological Communities.- Multi-direction Flow in a Mass-Transport Deposit, Santos Basin, Offshore Brazil.- Small-Scale Insights into Seismic-Scale Slumps: A Comparison of Slump Features from the Waitemata Basin, New Zealand, and the Møre Basin, Off-Shore Norway.- The Block Composite Submarine Landslide, Southern New England Slope, U.S.A.: A Morphological Analysis.- Post-Megaslide Slope Stability North of Svalbard, Arctic Ocean.- Geomorphology of the Talismán Slide (Western slope of Hatton Bank, NE Atlantic Ocean).- Investigations on the Peach 4 Debrite, a Late Pleistocene Mass Movement on the Northwest British Continental Margin.- Redistribution of Sediments by Submarine Landslides on the Eastern Nankai Accretionary Prism.- Mass Wasting at the Easternmost Cyprus Arc, Off Syria, Eastern Mediterranean.- Risk Analysis for Hurricane-Wave Induced Submarine Mudslides.- GIS-Based Assessment of Submarine Mudflow Hazard Offshore of the Mississippi Delta, Gulf of Mexico.- Spatial Analysis of Shallow Slope Instability Incorporating an Engineering Geological Ground Model.- Estimating the Empirical Probability of Submarine Landslide Occurrence.- Constraining Geohazards to the Past: Impact Assessment of Submarine Mass Movements on Seabed Developments.- Evaluating Gas-Generated Pore Pressure with Seismic Reflection Data in a Landslide-Prone Area: An Example from Finneidfjord, Norway.- Historic and Paleo-Submarine Landslide Deposits Imaged Beneath Port Valdez, Alaska: Implications for Tsunami Generation in a Glacial Fiord.- Multibeam Bathymetry Investigations of Mass Movements in Lake Le Bourget (NW Alps, France) Using a Portable Platform.- Morphodynamic and Slope Instability Observations at Wabush Lake, Labrador.- Climate-Induced Turbidity Current Activity in NW-African Canyon Systems.- Submarine Mass Movements in Margin Construction and Economic Significance.- Investigating the Timing, Processes and Deposits of One of the World's Largest Submarine Gravity Flows: The 'Bed 5 Event' Off Northwest Afric

Inhalt

Introduction SECTION I SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS: TRIGGERS, MECHANICS, AND GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES Interplay Between Gas Hydrates and Submarine Slope Failure Advanced Dynamic Soil Testing - Introducing the New Marum Dynamic Triaxial Testing Device Clustering of Geotechnical Properties of Marine Sediments Through Self-Organizing Maps: An Example from the Zakynthos Canyon-Valley System, Greece Identi&64257;cation of Shear Zones and Their Causal Mechanisms Using a Combination of Cone Penetration Tests and Seismic Data in the Eastern Niger Delta Mass Wasting Dynamics at the Deeper Slope of the Ligurian Margin (Southern France) Characterization of Micaceous Sand for Investigation of a Subsea Mass Movement Estimating Drag Forces on Suspended and Laid-on-Sea&64258; oor Pipelines Caused by Clay-Rich Submarine Debris Flow Impact Experimental Investigation of Subaqueous Clay-Rich Debris Flows, Turbidity Generation and Sediment Deposition The Kinematics of a Debris Avalanche on the Sumatra Margin 3D Numerical Modelling of Submerged and Coastal Landslide Propagation Peculiar Morphologies of Subaqueous Landslide Deposits and Their Relationship to Flow Dynamics Large Landslides on Passive Continental Margins: Processes, Hypotheses and Outstanding Questions Origin of Overpressure and Slope Failure in the Ursa Region, Northern Gulf of Mexico History of Pore Pressure Build Up and Slope Instability in Mud-Dominated Sediments of Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope How Does Fluid In&64258;ow Geometry Control Slope Destabilization? Geochemical Evidence for Groundwater-Charging of Slope Sediments: The Nice Airport 1979 Landslide and Tsunami Revisited Modeling Slope Instability as Shear Rupture Propagation in a Saturated Porous SECTION II SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS: CASE STUDIES AND HAZARD ASSESSMENT Submarine Mass Transport Within Monterey Canyon: Benthic Disturbance Controls on the Distribution of Chemosynthetic Biological Communities Multi-direction Flow in a Mass-Transport Deposit, Santos Basin, Offshore Brazil Small-Scale Insights into Seismic-Scale Slumps: A Comparison of Slump Features from the Waitemata Basin, New Zealand, and the More Basin, Off-Shore Norway The Block Composite Submarine Landslide, Southern New England Slope, U.S.A.: A Morphological Analysis Post-Megaslide Slope Stability North of Svalbard, Arctic Ocean Geomorphology of the Talisman Slide (Western slope of Hatton Bank, NE Atlantic Ocean) Investigations on the Peach 4 Debrite, a Late Pleistocene Mass Movement on the Northwest British Continental Margin Redistribution of Sediments by Submarine Landslides on the Eastern Nankai Accretionary Prism Mass Wasting at the Easternmost Cyprus Arc, Off Syria, Eastern Mediterranean Risk Analysis for Hurricane-Wave Induced Submarine Mudslides GIS-Based Assessment of Submarine Mud&64258; ow Hazard Offshore of the Mississippi Delta, G ...