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| Sultan, Nabil; Cochonat, Pierre; Canals, M; Cattaneo, Antonio; Dennielou, Bernard; Haflidason, H; Laberg, J; Long, D; Mienert, J; Trincardi, F; Urgeles, R; Vorren, T; Wilson, C. |
| The Costa target areas exhibit the variability of slope instabilities needed to improve our understanding of sediment physical and mechanical properties in areas prone to sliding. That is why in this project, we have analysed the different slope failures events from different parts of the Costa target areas, which reflect diverse triggering mechanisms. The aim of the first part of this study was to identify the geotechnical response of the sediment to different external mechanisms (earthquake, rapid sedimentation and gas hydrate melting). We have focused on the relation between external mechanisms and the consequence change in the in-situ stress state and the physical, mechanical, and elastic properties of the sediment. In the second part of the paper, the... |
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Palavras-chave: Slope instability; Sensitivity; Sedimentation; Hydrate; Earthquake. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2004/publication-700.pdf |
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| Lastras, G; Canals, M; Urgeles, R; Amblas, D; Ivanov, M; Droz, Laurence; Dennielou, Bernard; Fabres, J; Schoolmeester, T; Akhmetzhanov, A; Orange, D; Garcia Garcia, A. |
| The Cap de Creus canyon, northwestern Mediterranean Sea, belongs to a complex network of submarine canyons cutting the western Gulf of Lion continental shelf and opening into the larger Sete canyon. Swath bathymetry data, MAKAM deep-towed side-scan sonar imagery and 5 kHz high resolution seismic reflection profiles show striking morphologies in the Cap de Creus canyon floor and walls. As a consequence of the canyon head and the upper reach severe incision, the continental shelf dramatically narrows in front of the Creus Cape promontory. The upper canyon has a flat-bottomed thalweg incised in a megascale sediment furrow field displaying hyperbolic seismic facies. The tens of kilometres long linear furrows extend also over the middle canyon down to 1400 in... |
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Palavras-chave: Gulf of Lion; Bedform; Swath bathymetry; Side scan sonar; Submarine canyon. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-3602.pdf |
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| Sultan, Nabil; Cattaneo, Antonio; Urgeles, R; Lee, H; Locat, J; Trincardi, F; Berne, Serge; Canals, M; Lafuerza, S. |
| This study is among the first to examine the genesis of the seafloor and subsurface undulations on the Adriatic continental shelf by integrating stratigraphic information and in situ and laboratory geotechnical measurements. Interpretation of sediment behavior is based on a 32-m-long borehole crossing ( 1) a possible shear plane and ( 2) a silty clay layer at about 20 m below seafloor (mbsf) on which sediment undulations are rooted and could be interpreted as a potential weak layer succession. Our main results in terms of triggering mechanism for the observed undulations show that under an earthquake, liquefaction and/or failure of the silty-clay sediments ( weak layer) leading to deformation of the upper more cohesive sediments is possible only when such... |
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Palavras-chave: Sediment deformation; Shear strength; Earthquake; Adriatic shelf. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-4105.pdf |
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