Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences, 1st ed. 2016 7th International Symposium Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research Series, Vol. 41

This book is a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art studies of seafloor slope instability and their societal implications. The volume captures the most recent and exciting scientific progress made in this research field.

As the world?s climate and energy needs change, the conditions under which slope instability occurs and needs to be considered, are also changing. The science and engineering of submarine ? or more widely subaqueous ? mass movements is greatly benefiting from advances in seafloor and sub-seafloor surveying technologies. Ultra-high-resolution seafloor mapping and 3D seismic reflection cubes are becoming commonly available datasets that are dramatically increasing our knowledge of the mechanisms and controls of subaqueous slope failure. Monitoring of slope deformation, repeat surveying and deep drilling, on the other hand, are emerging as important new techniques for understanding the temporal scales of slope instability. In essence, rapid advances in technology are being readily incorporated into scientific research and as a result, our understanding of submarine mass movements is increasing at a very fast rate. The volume also marks the beginning of the third IGCP project for the submarine mass movement research community, IGCP-640 S⁴SLIDE (Significance of Modern and Ancient Submarine Slope LandSLIDEs). The Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences symposium is the biannual meeting under the IGCP umbrella.

1              Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: Progress and Challenges

Geoffroy Lamarche, Joshu Mountjoy, Suzanne Bull, Tom Hubble, Sebastian Krastel, Emily Lane, Aaron Micallef, Lorena Moscardelli, Christof Mueller,Ingo Pecher, andSusanne Woelz

Part  I Submarine Mass Movement in Margin Construction and Economic Significance

2              The Role of Submarine Landslides in the Law of the Sea

David Mosher, Sverre Laberg Jan and Alain Murphy

3              Fabric Development and Pore-Throat Reduction in a Mass-Transport Deposit in the Jubilee Gas Field, Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Consequences for the Sealing Capacity of MTDs

Sebastian Cardona, Lesli Wood, Ruarri Day-Stirrat and Lorena Moscardelli

4              Seismic geomorphology of the Israel Slump Complex in the central Levant Basin (SE Mediterranean)

Emmanuel Eruteya Ovie, Murad Safadi, Nicolas Waldmann, Yizhaq Makovsky and Zvi Ben-Avraham

Cleverson Silva, Antonio dos Reis, Rodrigo Perovano, Marcus Gorini, Marcos dos Santos, Izabel Jeck, Ana Angelica Tavares and Christian Gorini

6              Kinematics of submarine slope failures in the deepwater Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Tuviere Omeru, Joseph A Cartwright and Suzanne Bull

Part II Failure dynamics from landslide geomorphology

7              Postglacial Mass Failures in the Inner Hardangerfjorden System, Western Norway

Benjamin Bellwald, Oline Hjelstuen Berit, Hans Petter and Haflidi Haflidason

8              Onshore and offshore geomorphological features of the El Golfo debris avalanche (El Hierro, Canary Islands)

Ander Biain, Ricardo León, Roger Urgeles, Luis Somoza, Teresa Medialdea, Mercedes Ferrer and Francisco Gonzalez

9              New insights on failure and post-failure dynamics of submarine landslides on the intra-slope Palmarola ridge (Central Tyrrhenian Sea)

Daniele Casalbore, Alessandro Bosman, Francesco Chiocci, Michela Ingrassia, Leonardo Macelloni, Andrea Sposato and Eleonora Martorelli

10              Assessment of Canyon Wall Failure Process from Multibeam Bathymetry and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Observations, U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin

Jason Chaytor, Amanda Demopoulos, Uri Ten Brink, Christopher Baxter, Andrea Quattrini and Daniel Brothers

11              The Chuí Megaslide Complex: regional-scale submarine landslides on the Southern Brazilian Margin

Antonio dos Reis, Cleverson Silva, Marcus Gorini, Rafael Leão, Nara Pinto, Rodrigo Perovano, Marcos dos Santos, Josefa Guerra, Izabel Jeck and Ana Angelica Tavares

12              Submarine landslides and incised canyons of the southeast Queensland continental margin

Thomas Hubble, Jody Webster, Jody Webster, Phyllis Yu, Melissa Fletcher, David Voelker, David Airey, Samantha Clarke, Angel Puga-Bernabeu, David Mitchell, Floyd Howard, Stephen Gallagher and Tara Martin

13              Novel method to map the morphology of submarine landslide headwall scarps using Remotely Operated Vehicles

Veerle Huvenne, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Leo Chaumillon, Claudio Lo Iacono and Russell Wynn

14              Flow behaviour of a giant landslide and debris flow entering Agadir Canyon, NW Africa

Sebastian Krastel, Russell Wynn, Peter Feldens, Anke Schürer, Christoph Böttner, C. Stevenson, Matthieu Cartigny, Veit Hühnerbach and Daniel Unverricht

15              Fine-Scale Morphology of Tubeworm Slump, Monterey Canyon

Charles Paull, Krystle Anderson, David Caress, Eve Lundsten and Roberto Gwiazda

16              Submarine slide topography and the Distribution of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems: A Case Study in the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean)

Alessandra Savini, Fabio Marchese, Giuseppe Verdicchio and Agostina Vertino

Part III Geotechnical aspects of mass movement

17              Shear Strength of Siliciclastic Sediments from Passive and Active Margins (0-100 meters below seafloor): Insights into Seismic Strengthening

Joshua DeVore and Derek Sawyer

18              A small volume calibration chamber for cone penetration testing (CPT) on submarine soils

Matthias Fleischer, Stefan Kreiter, Tobias Mörz and Marc Huhndorf

19              Underwater Mass Movements in Lake Mjøsa, Norway

Carl Frederik Forsberg, Håkon Heyerdahl and Anders Solheim

20              In situ cyclic softening of marine silts by vibratory CPTU at Orkdalsfjord test site, mid Norway

Max Oke Kluger, Stefan Kreiter, Jean-Sebastien L’Heureux, Sylvia Stegmann, Vicki Moon and Tobias Mörz

21              First results of the geotechnical in situ investigation for soil characterisation along the upper slope off Vesterålen - Northern Norway

Sylvia Stegmann, Stefan Kreiter, Jean-Sebastien L’Heureux, Maarten Vanneste, David Völker, Jeanne Baeten Nicole, Siren Knudsen, Leif Rise, Oddvar Longva, Jo Brendryen, Haflidi Haflidason, Shyam Chand and Tobias Mörz

22              A novel micro-shear tester for failure analysis of fine and cohesive granular matter

Lutz Torbahn, Stefan Strege, Arno Kwade and Aurelian Trandafir

23              Knickpoint migration induced by landslide: Evidence from laboratory to field observations in Wabush Lake

Dominique Turmel, Jacques Locat, Gary Parker and Jean-Marie Konrad

24              Multiple flow slide experiment in the Westerschelde Estuary, The Netherlands

Dick Mastbergen, Geeralt van den Ham, Matthieu Cartigny, André Koelewijn, Marco de Kleine, Mike Clare, Jamie Hizzett, Maria Azpiroz and Age Vellinga

Part IV Multidisciplinary case studies

25              Submarine mass wasting on Hovgaard Ridge, Fram Strait, European Arctic

Matthias Forwick, Sverre Laberg Jan, Katrine Husum and Jenny Gales

26              3D seismic investigations of Pleistocene Mass Transport Deposits and Glacigenic Debris Flows on the North Sea Fan, NE Atlantic Margin

Oline Hjelstuen Berit and Siv Grinde

27              Do embedded volcaniclastic layers serve as potential glide planes? – An integrated analysis from the Gela Basin offshore southern Sicily

Jannis Kuhlmann, Katrin Huhn, Matt J. Ikari and Sebastian Krastel

28              Sediment failure affecting muddy contourites on the continental slope offshore northern Norway – lessons learned and some outstanding issues

Jan Sverre Laberg, Nicole Baetenb, Maarten Vannestec, Carl Frederik Forsberg, Matthias Forwick and Haflidi Haflidason

29              Mass Wasting History within Lake Ohrid Basin (Albania/Macedonia) over the last 600ka

Katja Lindhorst and Sebastian Krastel

30              Implications of Sediment Dynamics in Mass Transport along the Pianosa Ridge (Northern Tyrrhenian Sea)

Elda Miramontes, Antonio Cattaneo, Gwenael Jouet and Sebastien Garziglia

31              Late-Holocene Mass Movements in High Arctic East Lake, Melville Island (Western Canadian Arctic Archipelago)

Alexandre Normandeau, Gabriel Joyal, Patrick Lajeunesse, Pierre Francus, Scott Lamoureux and François Lapointe

32              Pleistocene Mass Transport Complexes off Barbados accretionary prism (Lesser Antilles)

Thibaud Pichot, Sara Lafuerza, Sara Lafuerza, Martin Patriat and Walter Roest

33              Exploring the Influence of Deepwater Currents as Potential Triggers for Slope Instability

Maria I. Prieto, Lorena Moscardelli and Lesli J. Wood

Part V Tectonics and mass movements

34              French alpine foreland Holocene paleoseismicity revealed by coeval mass wasting deposits in glacial lakes

Emmanuel Chapron, Anaëlle Simonneau, Grégoire Ledoux, Fabien Arnaud, Patrick Lajeunesse and Patrick Albéric

35              Spatial and temporal relation of submarine landslides and faults along the Israeli continental slope, eastern Mediterranean

Oded Katz, Einav Reuven, Yonatan Elfassi, Anner Paldor, Zohar Gvirtzman and Einat Aharonov

36              Earthquake induced landslides in Lake Éternité, Québec, Canada

Jacques Locat, Dominique Turmel, Marion Habersetzer, Annie-Pier Trottier, Patrick Lajeunesse and Guillaume St-Onge

Gregory Moore and Michael Strasser

38              Insights into Effectiveness of Simplified Seismic Displacement Procedures to Evaluate Earthquake Behavior of a Deepwater Slope

Aurelian Trandafir and Mihail Popescu

Part VI Fluid flow and gas hydrates

39              Deriving the Rate of Salt Rise at the Cape Fear Slide Using New Seismic Data

Levent Akinci and Derek Sawyer

40              Submarine slope instabilities coincident with shallow gas hydrate systems: insights from New Zealand examples

Gareth Crutchley, Joshu Mountjoy, Ingo Pecher, Andrew Gorman and Stuart Henrys

41              Eel Canyon Slump Scar and Associated Fluid Venting

42              Shallow gas and the development of a weak layer in submarine spreading, Hikurangi margin (New Zealand)

Aaron Micallef, Joshu Mountjoy, Sebastian Krastel, Gareth Crutchley and Stephanie Koch

43              Stability of fine-grained sediments subject to gas hydrate dissociation in the Arctic continental margin

Jeffrey A. Priest and Jocelyn L. H. Grozic

Part VII Mass transport deposits in modern and outcrop sedimentology

44              Soft-sediment deformation associated with mass transport deposits of the aAnsa basin (Spanish Pyrenees)

Christelle Butault, Jakub Fedorik, Francis Odonne and Patrice Imbert

45              Synsedimentary tectonics and mass wasting along the Alpine margin in Liassic time

46              Meso-scale kinematic indicators in exhumed mass transport deposits: definitions and implications

Kei Ogata, Andrea Pini Gian, Andrea Festa, Željko Poga?nik and Claudio Lucente

47              Morphodynamics of supercritical turbidity currents in the channel-lobe transition zone

George Postma, David Hoyal, Vitor Abreu, Matthieu Cartigny, Timothy Demko, Juan Fedele, Kick Kleverlaan and H. Pederson Keriann

48              Tiny fossils, big impact: the role of foraminifera-enriched condensed section in arresting the movement of a large retrogressive submarine landslide in the Gulf of Mexico

Derek Sawyer and Bailee Hodelka

49              Inclusion of substrate blocks within a mass transport deposit: A case study from Cerro Bola, Argentina

Matheus Sobiesiak, Ben Kneller, G. Ian Alsop and Pablo Milana Juan

Part VIII Numerical and statistical anlysis

50              GIS catalogue of submarine landslides in the Spanish Continental Shelf: potential and difficulties for susceptibility assessment

Natalia Borrell, Luis Somoza, Ricardo León, Teresa Medialdea, Francisco Gonzalez and Carmen Gimenez-Moreno

51              Tempo and triggering of large submarine landslides – Statistical analysis for hazard assessment

Michael Clare, Peter Talling, Peter Challenor and James Hunt

52              Morphological controls on submarine slab failures

Oliver Dabson, John Barlow and Roger Moore

53              Incorporating Correlated Variables into GIS-Based Probabilistic Submarine Slope Stability Assessments

William Haneberg

54              Quantifying the key role of slope material peak strength – using Discrete Element simulations

Katrin Huhn, Frank Strozyk and Ingo Kock

55              Correction Factors for 1-D Runout Analyses of Selected Submarine Slides

Rafael Rodríguez-Ochoa, Farrokh Nadim and José Cepeda

Part IX Tsunami generation from slope failure

56              Volcanic generation of tsunamis: Two New Zealand palaeo-events

Willem de Lange and Vicki Moon

57              Tsunami-genesis due to retrogressive landslides on an inclined seabed

Finn Løvholt, Geir Pedersen and Carl Harbitz

58              Geothermal System as the Cause of the 1979 Landslide Tsunami in Lembata Island, Indonesia

Yudhicara, Phillipson Bani and Alwin Darmawan

59              Towards a spatial probabilistic submarine landslide hazard model for submarine canyons

Christof Mueller, Joshu Mountjoy, William Power, Emily Lane and Xiaoming Wang

60              Coupled modelling of the failure and tsunami of a submarine debris avalanche offshore central New Zealand

Xiaoming Wang, Joshu Mountjoy, William Power, Emily Lane and Christof Mueller

61              Observations of coastal landslide-generated tsunami under an ice cover: the case of Lac-des-Seize-Îles, Québec, Canada

Jonathan Leblanc, Dominique Turmel, Julie Therrien and Jacques Locat

Index

Unique subject that is addressed in very few other publications and interest is growing rapidly

Presents the most up to date knowledge from interdisciplinary fields of submarine mass movements and their consequences

Offers full spectrum of challenges presented by major offshore and coastal hazards