Marine Slides and Other Mass Movements: Nato Conference Series, cartea 6

Marine Slides — Some Introductory Remarks.- Geology and Geodynamical Settings.- On the Tectonic Setting of Submarine Slides.- Active Slides and Flows in Underconsolidated Marine Sediments on the Slopes of the Mississippi Delta.- Coastal Geomorphology.- Recent Mass Wasting Processes on the Provencal Margin (Western Mediterranean).- Mechanics of Marine Slides and Other Mass Movements.- Some Aspects of Submarine Slope Stability.- On an Explanation of Marine Flow Slides in Sand.- Submarine Slumping and Mass Movements on the Continental Slope of Israel.- Piezometer Probes for Assessing Effective Stress and Stability in Submarine Sediments.- Marine Slope Stability — A Geological Approach.- Geophysics.- Imaging of Submarine Landslides with Wide-Swath Sonar.- Anatomy of Some Atlantic Margin Sediment Slides and Some Comments on Ages and Mechanisms.- Evidences of Late Quaternary Mass Movements in the Bay of Biscay.- Earthquake Seismology.- Estimation of Earthquake Ground Motions Relevant to the Triggering of Marine Mass Movements.- Tsunami as Triggering Mechanism of Homogenites Recorded in Areas of the Eastern Mediterranean Characterized by the “Cobblestone Topography”.- Oceanography.- Interrelationships between Oceanographic Events and Mass Wasting of the Sea Floor.- Marine Sedimentaology.- The Deposition of Thin Bedded Subaqeous Debris Flow Deposits.- Long-Range Sidescan Sonar Studies of Sediment Slides and the Effects of Slope Mass Sediment Movement on Abyssal Plain Sedimentaion.- Unusual Debris Flow Deposits from the Base of the Malta Escarpment (Eastern Mediterranean).- Marine Biology.- Marine Slides and Allopatric Speciation.- Possible Benthic Fauna and Slope Instability Relationships.- Discussion, Summary and Recommendation.