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Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences - 5th International Symposium (Hardcover, 2012) Loot Price: R5,754
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Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences - 5th International Symposium (Hardcover, 2012): Yasuhiro Yamada, Kiichiro...

Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences - 5th International Symposium (Hardcover, 2012)

Yasuhiro Yamada, Kiichiro Kawamura, Ken Ikehara, Yujiro Ogawa, Roger Urgeles, David Mosher, Jason Chaytor, Michael Strasser

Series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 31

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Submarine mass movements represent major offshore geohazards due to their destructive and tsunami-generation potential. This potential poses a threat to human life as well as to coastal, nearshore and offshore engineering structures. Recent examples of catastrophic submarine landslide events that affected human populations (including tsunamis) are numerous; e.g., Nice airport in 1979, Papua-New Guinea in 1998, Stromboli in 2002, Finneidfjord in 1996, and the 2006 and 2009 failures in the submarine cable network around Taiwan. The Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 also generated submarine landslides that may have amplified effects of the devastating tsunami. Given that 30% of the World 's population live within 60 km of the coast, the hazard posed by submarine landslides is expected to grow as global sea level rises. This elevated awareness of the need for better understanding of underwater landslides is coupled with great advances in underwater mapping, sampling and monitoring technologies, laboratory analogue and numerical modeling capabilities developed over the past two decades. Multibeam sonar, 3D seismic reflection, and remote and autonomous underwater vehicle technologies provide hitherto unparalleled imagery of the geology beneath the oceans, permitting investigation of submarine landslide deposits in great detail. Increased and new access to drilling, coring, in situ measurements and monitoring devices allows for ground-thruthing geophysical data, provides access to samples for geotechnical laboratory experiments and unprecedented in situ information on strength and effective stress conditions of underwater slopes susceptible to fail. Great advances in numerical simulation of submarine landslide kinematics and tsunami propagation, particularly since the 2004 Sumatra tsunami, have also lead to increased understanding and predictability of submarine landslide consequences.
This volume consists of the latest scientific research by international experts in geological, geophysical, engineering and environmental aspects of submarine mass failure, focused on understanding the full spectrum of challenges presented by submarine mass movements and their consequences.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 31
Release date: September 2011
First published: 2012
Editors: Yasuhiro Yamada • Kiichiro Kawamura • Ken Ikehara • Yujiro Ogawa • Roger Urgeles • David Mosher • Jason Chaytor • Michael Strasser
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 52mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 769
Edition: 2012
ISBN-13: 978-9400721616
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Soil science, sedimentology
Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > Oceanography (seas)
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Physical geography > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Structural engineering > Soil & rock mechanics
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LSN: 9400721617
Barcode: 9789400721616

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