Did you know that the Grand Bank earthquake of 1929 triggered a
huge submarine mass movement which broke submarine cables over a
distance of up to 1000 km from its source and generated a tsunami
which devastated a small village in Newfoundland killing 27 people?
The same happened in Papua New Guinea in 1998 with more than 2000
casualties. Submarine mass movements of various sizes and styles
are shaping the sea floor and are of concern for many facets of
human activities both onshore and offshore. These include the
development of natural resources, energy and communication
transport, coastal infrastructures and communities. This book
provides a world-wide perspective of submarine mass movements and
their consequences. This has been made possible by assembling
excellent contributions from active researchers, groups, or
institutions, thus providing full coverage of the many scientific
and engineering aspects of this type of marine and coastal
geo-hazard. It covers fundamental as well as site specific studies
from many areas including the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, inner
seas like the Mediterranean Sea, and fjords using the most recent
technologies from multibeam sonar imaging techniques, 3D seismic
analysis, slope stability analysis, to debris flow and tsunami
modeling.
Audience: This book is of interest to any researcher in the
field of marine and coastal geo-hazards. It will be useful for
planners, scientists and engineers involved in the development of
offshore and near-shore resources and also to those in charge of
the management and mitigation of coastal hazards. For graduate
students, this book provides an up-to-date vision of the process of
submarine mass movements and theirconsequences from both a
scientific and an engineering standpoint, and it includes a unique
collection of the existing literature on marine geo-hazards.
CD-Rom included
This volume contains a CD-Rom which in addition to an
electronically searchable version of the contributions, has full
colour versions of figures which are printed in black and white in
the book.
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