Historical and pre-historical tsunamis in the Mediterranean and its connected seas: Geological signatures, generation mechanisms and coastal impacts

GA Papadopoulos, E Gràcia, R Urgeles, V Sallares… - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
The origin of tsunamis in the Mediterranean region and its connected seas, including the
Marmara Sea, the Black Sea and the SW Iberian Margin in the NE Atlantic Ocean, is …

Submarine landslides: processes, triggers and hazard prediction

DG Masson, CB Harbitz, RB Wynn… - … of the Royal …, 2006 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Huge landslides, mobilizing hundreds to thousands of km3 of sediment and rock are
ubiquitous in submarine settings ranging from the steepest volcanic island slopes to the …

Slope failure dynamics and impacts from seafloor and shallow sub-seafloor geophysical data: case studies from the COSTA project

M Canals, G Lastras, R Urgeles, JL Casamor, J Mienert… - Marine Geology, 2004 - Elsevier
Holocene and slightly pre-Holocene submarine landslide are found both in high-latitude
glacial-dominated margins and in lower latitude, river-dominated margins. This paper …

Petrophysics of fine-grained mass-transport deposits: A critical review

Q Sun, T Alves - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Submarine slope failures and their products occur at variable scales on continental margins
and island flanks. Here, we review the petrophysics of fine-grained mass-transport deposits …

Submarine landslides of the Mediterranean Sea: Trigger mechanisms, dynamics, and frequency‐magnitude distribution

R Urgeles, A Camerlenghi - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Submarine landslides are ubiquitous along Mediterranean continental margins. With the aim
of understanding mass‐wasting processes and related hazard at the scale of a large marine …

Frontally confined versus frontally emergent submarine landslides: A 3D seismic characterisation

J Frey-Martínez, J Cartwright, D James - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2006 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional (3D) seismic data from the continental margin offshore Israel (Eastern
Mediterranean) have been used to analyse the compressional structures within the toe …

Seafloor instabilities and sediment deformation processes: The need for integrated, multi-disciplinary investigations

M Vanneste, N Sultan, S Garziglia, CF Forsberg… - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present the current practice of investigations of seafloor instabilities and
deformation processes, based on extensive research conducted over the last years, which …

Isolated seafloor pockmarks linked to BSRs, fluid chimneys, polygonal faults and stacked Oligocene–Miocene turbiditic palaeochannels in the Lower Congo Basin

A Gay, M Lopez, P Cochonat, M Séranne, D Levaché… - Marine Geology, 2006 - Elsevier
Based on high-resolution 3D seismic data sets, we document the subsurface reservoir
architecture and organization of a portion of the Oligocene–Miocene stratigraphy within the …

Identification of weak layers and their role for the stability of slopes at Finneidfjord, northern Norway

JS L'Heureux, O Longva, A Steiner, L Hansen… - … mass movements and …, 2012 - Springer
The 1996 Finneidfjord landslide, which took four human lives in northern Norway, initiated
along a weak layer in the fjord-marine sediments before develo** retrogressively across …

Geomorphologic and infilling characteristics of the slope-confined submarine canyons in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea

M Su, Z Lin, C Wang, Z Kuang, J Liang, H Chen, S Liu… - Marine Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Submarine canyons, classified as shelf-incision and slope-confined types, are considered
as the most important sediment transportation conduits in the continental margins. Being …