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Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 19)
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Table of contents (58 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamental Aspects
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Front Matter
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About this book
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 their consequences 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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Laval University, Québec, Canada
Jacques Locat, Luc Boisvert
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Department of Geology, University of Tromsø, Norway
Jürgen Mienert
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences
Book Subtitle: 1st International Symposium
Editors: Jacques Locat, Jürgen Mienert, Luc Boisvert
Series Title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0093-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1244-0Published: 31 March 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3973-4Published: 03 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0093-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1878-9897
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6959
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 542
Topics: Hydrogeology, Oceanography, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Classical Mechanics