Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences : First International Symposium - Proceedings

Provides a world-wide perspective of submarine mass movements and their consequences. This book assembles contributions from active researchers, groups, or institutions, and covers many scientific and engineering aspects of this type of marine and coastal geo-hazard. It contains a CD-Rom with full colour versions of the figures in the book.

Section 1 - Fundamental aspects.- FLOW LIQUEFACTION FAILURE OF SUBMARINE SLOPES DUE TO MONOTONIC LOADINGS-AN EFFECTIVE STRESS APPROACH.- FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF RETROGRESSIVE FAILURE OF SUBMARINE SLOPES.- STABILITY CONDITIONS OF ACCUMULATIVE FORMS OF SEDIMENTS ON SUBMARINE SLOPES.- SIMULATING SUBMARINE SLOPE INSTABILITY INITIATION USING CENTRIFUGE MODEL TESTING.- LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL OF GASSY MARINE SANDS.- CYCLIC STRENGTH OF STRATIFIED SOIL SAMPLES.- TOWARDS AN APPROACH FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF RISK ASSOCIATED WITH SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS.- FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF LANDSLIDE IN DREDGED SLOPE.- NUMERICAL MODELING OF TSUNAMI GENERATION BY SUBAERIAL AND SUBMERGED LANDSLIDES.- DEVELOPING ENGINEERING DESIGN CRITERIA FOR MASS GRAVITY FLOWS IN DEEP OCEAN AND CONTINENTAL SLOPE ENVIRONMENTS.- THE DYNAMICS OF LIQUEFIED SEDIMENT FLOW UNDERGOING PROGRESSIVE SOLIDIFICATION.- EFFECT OF GAS HYDRATES DISSOCIATION ON SEAFLOOR SLOPE STABILITY.- WAVES AND RUN-UP GENERATED BY A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SLIDING MASS.- TSUNAMI SOURCE PARAMETERS OF SUBMARINE EARTHQUAKES AND SLIDES.- STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COHESIVE GRAVITY-FLOW DEPOSITS, AND A SEDIMENTOLOGICAL APPROACH ON THEIR FLOW MECHANISMS.- ROLE OF PORE-FLUID PRESSURE AND SLOPE ANGLE IN TRIGGERING SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS: NATURAL EXAMPLES AND PILOT EXPERIMENTAL MODELS.- HYDRO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF GASSY SOILS.- EVALUATING TSUNAMI HAZARDS FROM DEBRIS FLOWS.- PROBABILISTIC ANALYSES OF LANDSLIDE TSUNAMI HAZARDS.- AN INNOVATIVE DOUBLE CELL TRIAXIAL SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT OF THE VOLUME CHANGE OF GASEOUS OR UNSATURATED MARINE SOILS AND TWO OTHER ADVANCED SOIL TESTING SYSTEMS.- NUMERICAL MODELING OF SUBMARINE MASS-MOVEMENT GENERATED WAVES USING RANS MODEL.- DISPLACEMENT ANALYSIS OF SUBMARINE SLOPES USING ENHANCED NEWMARK METHOD.- Section 2 - Altantic Ocean.- IMAGING THE AFEN SLIDE FROM COMMERCIAL 3D SEISMIC - METHODOLOGY AND COMPARISONS WITH HIGH-RESOLUTION DATA.- THE STOREGGA SLIDE COMPLEX; REPEATED LARGE SCALE SLIDING IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATIC CYCLICITY.- DYNAMICS, VELOCITY AND RUN-OUT OF THE GIANT STOREGGA SLIDE.- ISSUES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF GRAVITY MASS FLOW HAZARD IN THE STOREGGA AREA OFF THE WESTERN NORWEGIAN COAST.- SHEAR-STRENGTH SIGNATURES OF MASS MOVEMENTS, CONTINENTAL SLOPE OF CAMPOS BASIN, BRAZIL.- PRECONDITIONS LEADING TO THE HOLOCENE TRÆNADJUPET SLIDE OFFSHORE NORWAY.- SLOPE STABILITY ASSESSMENT OF THE TRÆNADJUPET SLIDE AREA OFFSHORE THE MID-NORWEGIAN MARGIN.- STABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE HUDSON APRON SLOPE, OFF NEW JERSEY, U.S.A..- SLOPE FAILURES IN THE FAROE - SHETLAND CHANNEL.- A SYNTHESIS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS ON THE EASTERN CANADIAN MARGIN.- THE CHRONOLOGY AND RECURRENCE OF SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS ON THE CONTINENTAL SLOPE OFF SOUTHEASTERN CANADA.- INTERPLAY BETWEEN SALT ACTIVITIES AND SLOPE INSTABILITIES, BRYANT CANYON AREA, NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO.- THE AFEN SLIDE - A MULTISTAGED SLOPE FAILURE IN THE FAROE-SHETLAND CHANNEL.- CANARY ISLANDS LANDSLIDES AND TSUNAMI GENERATION: CAN WE USE TURBIDITE DEPOSITS TO INTERPRET LANDSLIDE PROCESSES?.- Section 3 - Pacific Ocean.- SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES IN SOCIETY AND AUSTRAL ISLANDS, FRENCH POLYNESIA: EVOLUTION WITH THE AGE OF EDIFICES.- MASS MOVEMENT ALONG THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA MARGIN AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR TSUNAMI GENERATION.- CHARACTERISTICS OF SEVERAL TSUNAMIGENIC SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES.- CHARACTERISTICS OF LANDSLIDE GENERATED TSUNAMIS FROM OBSERVATIONAL DATA.- SLOPE FAILURES AND PALEOSEISMICITY, EFFINGHAM INLET, SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.- ARCHITECTURE AND FAILURE MECHANISM OF THE OFFSHORE SLUMP RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 1998 PAPUA NEW GUINEA TSUNAMI.- Section 4 - Inners seas.- SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENT ON THE EBRO SLOPE.- MORPHOBATHYMETRY OF SMALL-SCALE MUD RELIEFS ON THE ADRIATIC SHELF.- CANNIBALIZATION OF A CONTINENTAL MARGIN BY REGIONAL SCALE MASS WASTING: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE CENTRAL TYRRHENIAN SEA.- EVOLUTIONARY GRAVITY FLOW DEPOSITS IN THE MIDDLE TURONIAN - EARLY CONIACI