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| Cattaneo, Antonio; Babonneau, Nathalie; Ratzov, G.; Dan-unterseh, G.; Yelles, K.; Bracene, R.; De Lepinay, B. Mercier; Boudiaf, A.; Deverchere, Jacques. |
| Shaking by moderate to large earthquakes in the Mediterranean Sea has proved in the past to potentially trigger catastrophic sediment collapse and flow. On 21 May 2003, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake located near BoumerdSs (central Algerian coast) triggered large turbidity currents responsible for 29 submarine cable breaks at the foot of the continental slope over similar to similar to 150 km from west to east. Seafloor bathymetry and backscatter imagery show the potential imprints of the 2003 event and of previous events. Large slope scarps resulting from active deformation may locally enhance sediment instabilities, although faults are not directly visible at the seafloor. Erosion is evident at the foot of the margin and along the paths of the numerous... |
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Palavras-chave: Western mediterranean sea; Cascadia subduction zone; Turbidity current; Zemmouri earthquake; Sedimentary processes; Submarine landslides; Northern algeria; Margin; Gps; Boundary. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00098/20959/18571.pdf |
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| Ioualalen, Mansour; Ratzov, G.; Collot, Jean-yves; Sanclemente, E.. |
| P>Shelf promontories exhibit very specific bathymetric features with regards to tsunamis. Because of their submerged cape morphology, a potential tsunami generated seawards of the promontory will exhibit a specific mode of propagation and coastal impact. To identify this peculiar tsunami signature, the Atacames Promontory, Ecuador, was chosen as a case study (another example is the shelf of the Nile delta, Egypt). The area is tectonically very active, hosts earthquakes among the most powerful recorded, as well as areas of slope instabilities that have triggered significant submarine landslides in the past (several cubic kilometres of volume). Both types of events are likely to be tsunamigenic. To examine the tsunami behaviour at the coastal area of the... |
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Palavras-chave: Tsunamis; Site effects; Wave propagation; Submarine landslides; South America. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00200/31101/29509.pdf |
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| Migeon, Sebastien; Cattaneo, Antonio; Hassoun, Virginie; Larroque, Christophe; Corradi, Nicola; Fanucci, Francesco; Dano, Alexandre; De Lepinay, Bernard Mercier; Sage, Francoise; Gorini, Christian. |
| Based on new multibeam bathymetric data, seismic-reflection profiles and side-scan sonar images, a great number of submarine failures of various types and sizes was identified along the northern margin of the Ligurian Basin and characterized with 3 distinct end-members concerning their location on the margin, sedimentary processes and possible triggering mechanisms. They include superficial landslides mainly located in the vicinity of the main mountain-supplied rivers and on the inner walls of canyons (typically smaller that 10(8) m(3) in volume: Type 1), deep scars 100-500 m high along the base of the continental slope (Type 2), and large-scale scars and Mass Transport Deposits (MTDs) affecting the upper part of the slope (Type 3 failures). The MTDs are... |
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Palavras-chave: Ligurian Sea; Submarine landslides; Seafloor morphology; Seismic-reflection profiles; Side-scan sonar. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00043/15387/14028.pdf |
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| Sultan, Nabil; Savoye, Bruno; Jouet, Gwenael; Leynaud, Didier; Cochonat, Pierre; Henry, P.; Stegmann, Sylvia; Kopf, Achim. |
| The Var prodelta progrades across a straight, narrow shelf (less than 2 km wide) with a very steep continental slope reaching locally more than 30 degrees. Historically, the Var delta front is sadly famous for the 1979 catastrophic submarine landslide that resulted in several casualties and infrastructural damage. Geotechnical and geophysical investigations carried out in late 2007 to the east of the 1979 landslide scar provide evidence for the possible occurrence of a new important sedimentary collapse and submarine landslide. Geophysical data acquired in the area show the presence of several seafloor morphological steps rooted to shallow subsurface seismic reflections. Moreover, in situ piezocone measurements demonstrate the presence of several shear... |
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Palavras-chave: CPTu; Gassy soil; Piezocone; Shear zone; Submarine landslides. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00004/11481/8096.pdf |
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| Rodriguez, Mathieu; Maleuvre, Clement; Jollivet-castelot, Martin; D'Acremont, Elia; Rabaute, Alain; Lafosse, Manfred; Ercilla, Gemma; Vazquez, Juan-tomas; Alonso, Belen; Ammar, Abdellah; Gorini, Christian. |
| The active Eurasia-Nubia plate boundary runs across the Alboran Sea in theWestern Mediterranean Sea, where the connection between the Atlantic and Mediterranean water masses occurs. Earthquakes above magnitude M-w > 6 may favour the occurrence of landslides within contouritic drifts in the Alboran Sea. A compilation of recent multibeam data reveals for the first time the distribution of slope failures along the Xauen-Tofino banks, in the southern Alboran Sea. Here, we provide a detailed mapping and description of the morphology of eight Holocene landslides, including volume estimations of the failed mass and the related mass transport deposits (MTDs). The most voluminous landslide mobilized similar to 0.5 km(3) of sediment at the initial stage of slope... |
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Palavras-chave: Tsunamis; Submarine landslides; Submarine tectonics and volcanism; Africa. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00474/58560/61118.pdf |
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| Pattier, France; Etienne, S.; Collot, J; Patriat, Martin; Tournadour, Elsa; Roest, Walter; Rouillard, P.. |
| The Fairway Basin is an intracratonic deep-water basin inherited from cretaceous rifting, perched between the Lord Howe Rise and the New Caledonia Basin in the Southwest Pacific. Its originality lies in its atypical present-day physiography and its carbonate-dominated sedimentary setting since the Miocene. Although very limited well controls are available, its overall structure, seismic stratigraphy and architecture are relatively well known. However, little is known on the detailed sedimentary processes controlling its recent infill. Its remote location from any major clastic sediment sources provides a great setting to study deep-water carbonate sedimentary processes. In this paper, we propose a detailed analysis of surface morphologies based on existing... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep-water carbonates; Submarine landslides; Turbidites; Polygonal faulting; Fluid escape; Fairway Basin. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00488/60001/63237.pdf |
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