The Var submarine sedimentary system: understanding Holocene sediment delivery processes and their importance to the geological record

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 129, Issue , 1998, Pages 145-166

  Mulder, Thierry ^a,b   Savoye, Bruno ^c   Piper, David J W ^d   Syvitski, James P M ^e  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE FAN; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032457804     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.10     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. ALEXANDER, J. & MORRIS, S. A. 1994. Observations on experimental, non-chanellized, high concentration turbidity currents and variations in deposition around obstacles. Journal of Sedimentary Research, A64, 899-909.
2. BAGNOLD, R. A. 1962. Auto-suspension of transported sediment: turbidity currents. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 265, 315-319
3. BORNHOLD, B. D., REN, P. & PRIOR, D. B. 1994. High-frequency turbidity currents in British Columbia fjords. Geo-Marine Letters, 14(4), 238-243.
4. BOUMA, A. H. 1962. Sedimentology of some Flysch Deposits: a Graphic Approach to Facies Interpretation. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
5. BUGGE, T., BELDERSON, R. H. & KENYON, N. H. 1988. The Storegga Slide. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 325, 357-388.
6. COCHONAT, P., DODD, L., BOURILLET, J.-F. & SAVOYE, B. 1993. Geotechnical characteristics and instability of submarine slope sediments, the Nice slope (N-W Mediterranean Sea). Marine Georesources and Geotechnology, 11(2), 131-151.
7. COLEMAN, J. M. & GARRISON, L. E. 1977. Geological aspects of marine slope stability, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Geotechnology, 2, Marine Slope Stability, 9-44.
8. DUBAR, M. 1988. Niveaux marins étages des Alpes-Maritimes: détritisme, tectonique et eustatisme sur le littoral méditerranéen au Pliocène supérieur et au Quaternaire. Géologie Alpine, Mémoire hors série 14, 235-240.
9. EMBLEY, R. W. & JACOBI, R. D. 1977. Distribution and morphology of large submarine sediment slides and slumps on Atlantic Continental Margins. Marine Geotechnology, 2, 205-229.
10. FOREL, F. A. 1885. Les ravins sous-lacustres des fleuves glaciaires. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 101(16), 725-728.
11. GENNESSEAUX, M. 1962. Une cause probable des écoulements turbides profonds dans le canyon sous-marin du Var (Alpes-Maritimes). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, 254, 2038-2040.
12. _, GUIBOUT, M. & LACOMBE, H. 1971. Enregistrement de courants de turbidité dans la vallée sous-marine du Var (Alpes-Maritimes). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, Série D, 273, 2456-2459.
13. _, MAUFFRET, A. & PAUTOT, G. 1980. Les glissements sous-marins de la pente continentale niçoise et la rupture de câbles en mer Ligure (Méditerranée Occidentale). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, Série D, 290, 959-962.
14. HABIB, P. 1994. Aspects géotechniques de l'accident du nouveau port de Nice. Revue Française de Géotechnique, 65, 3-15.
15. HEEZEN, B. C. & EWING, M. 1952. Turbidity currents and submarine slumps, and the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake. American Journal of Science, 250, 849-873.
16. INMAN, D. L. 1970. Strong currents in submarine canyons. Abstracts, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 51(4), 319.
17. KNELLER, B. 1995. Beyond the turbidite paradigm: physical models for deposition of turbidites and their implications for reservoir prediction. In: HARTLEY, A. J. & PROSSER, D. J. (eds) Characterization of Deep Marine Clastic Systems. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 94, 31-49.
18. _, EDWARDS, E., MCCAFFREY, W. & MOORE, R. 1991. Oblique reflection of turbidity currents. Geology, 19, 250-252.
19. KUENEN, P. H. 1952. Estimated size of the Grand Banks turbidity current. American Journal of Science, 250, 849-873.
20. LAURENT, R. 1971. Charge solide en suspension et géochimie dans un fleuve côder méditerranéen. Le Var (Alpes-Maritimes). PhD thesis, Université de Nice, 249 pp.
21. LOWE, D. R. 1982. Sediment gravity flows: II. Depositional models with special reference to the deposits of high-density turbidity currents. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 52(1), 279-297.
22. MALINVERNO, A., RYAN, W. B. F., AUFFRET, G. A. & PAUTOT, G. 1988. Sonar images of the path of recent failure events on the continental margin off Nice, France. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 229, 59-75.
23. MATTHAI, H. F. 1990. Floods. In: WOOLMAN, M. G. & RIGGS, H. C. (eds) The Geology of North America, Vol. O1, Surface Water Hydrology. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, 97-120.
24. MIDDLETON, G. V. & HAMPTON, M. A. 1973. Sediment gravity flows; mechanics of flow and deposition. In: MIDDLETON, G. V. & BOUMA, A. H. (eds) Turbidity and Deep Water Sedimentation, SEPM Pacific Section short course, Anaheim, 1-38.
25. MONTI, S. & CARRÉ, D. 1979. Carte bathymétrique de la Baie des Anges, Nice, Côte d'Azur, 1:25000. CNEXO, Brest.
26. MOORE, J. G. & MOORE, G. W. 1989. Deposit from a giant wave on the island of Lanai, Hawaiian Ridge. Science, 226, 1312-1315.
27. MULDER, T. 1992. Aspects géotechniques de la stabilité des marges continentales. Application à la Baie des Anges, Nice, France. PhD thesis, INPL-ENSG Nancy, 264 pp.
28. _ & COCHONAT, P. 1996. Classification of offshore mass movements. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 66(1), 43-57.
29. _ & SYVITSKI, J. P. M. 1995. Turbidity currents generated at river mouths during exceptional discharges to the world oceans. Journal of Geology, 103, 285-299.
30. _, SAVOYE, B., SYVITSKI, J. P. M. & COCHONAT, P. 1996. Origine des courants de turbidité enregistrés à l'embouchure du Var en 1971. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, Série IIa, 322(4), 301-307.
31. _,_ &_ 1997a. Numerical modelling of a mid-sized gravity flow: the 1979 Nice turbidity current (dynamics, processes, sediment budget and seafloor impact). Sedimentology, 44, 305-326.
32. _,_ ,_ & PARIZE, O. 1997b. Des courants de turbidité hyperpycnaux dans la tête du canyon du Var? Données hydrologiques et observations de terrain. Oceanologica Acta, 20, 607-626.
33. _, _ & SKENE, K. I. 1998. Modeling of erosion and deposition by turbidity currents generated at river mouths. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 68, 124-137.
34. _, TISOT, J.-P., COCHONAT, P. & BOURILLET, J.-F. 1994. Regional assessment of mass failure events in the Baie des Anges, Mediterranean Sea. Marine Geology, 122, 29-45.
35. NARDIN, T. R., HEIN, F. J., GORSLINE, D. S. & EDWARDS, B. D. 1979. A review of mass movement processes, sediment and acoustic characteristics, and contrasts in slope and base-of-slope systems versus canyon-fan-basin floor systems, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Special Publication, 27, 61-73.
36. NORMARK, W. R. & PIPER, D. J. W. 1991. Initiation processes and flow evolution of turbidity currents: implications for the depositional record. In: OSBORNE, R. H. (ed.) From Shoreline to Abyss. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Special Publication, 46, 207-230.
37. PARKER, G. 1982. Conditions for the ignition of catastrophically erosive turbidity currents. Marine Geology, 46, 307-327.
38. PIPER, D. J. W. & AKSU, A. E. 1987. The source and origin of the Grand Banks turbidity current inferred from sediments budgets. Geo-Marine Letters, 7, 177-182.
39. _ & SAVOYE, B. 1993. Processes of late Quaternary turbidity current flow and deposition on the Var deep-sea fan, north-west Mediterranean Sea. Sedimentology, 40, 557-582.
40. _, COCHONAT, P., OLLIER, G., LE DREZEN, E., MORRISON, M. & BALTZER, A. 1992. Evolution progressive d'un glissement rotationnel en un courant de turbidité: cas du séisme de 1929 des Grands Bancs (Terre Neuve). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, Série II, 314, 1057-1064.
41. _, SHOR, A. N., FARRE, J. A., O'CONNELL, S. & JACOBI, R. 1985. Sediment slides and turbidity currents on the Laurentian fan: side-scan sonar investigations near the epicenter of the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake. Geology, 13, 538-541.
42. _, _ & HUGHES CLARKE, J. E. 1988. The 1929 Grand Banks earthquake, slump and turbidity current. In: CLIFTON, H. E. (ed.) Sedimentologic Consequences of Convulsive Geologic Events. Geological Society of America Special Paper 229, 77-92.
43. POSTMA, H. 1969. Suspended matter in the marine environment. In: Morning Review. Lectures of the Second International Oceanographic Congress, Moscow, 1966, 213-219.
44. PRIOR, D. B. & COLEMAN, J. M. 1978. Disintegrating retrogressive landslides on very-low-angle subaqueous slopes Mississippi Delta. Marine Geotechnology, 3(1), 37-60.
45. _ & _ 1982. Active slides and flows in underconsolidated marine sediments on the slope of Mississippi delta. In: SAXOV, S. & NIEUWENHUIS, J. K. (eds) Marine Slides and Other Mass Movements. Proceedings of a NATO Workshop, Algarve, Portugal, 15-21 December 1980, Series 4, 6, 21-50.
46. _, BORNHOLD, B. D. & JOHNS, M. W. 1986. Active sand transport along a fjord bottom channel, Bute inlet, British Columbia. Geology, 14, 581-584.
47. _,_, WISENAM, W. J., JR & LOWE, D .R. 1987. Turbidity current activity in a British Columbia fjord. Science, 237, 1330-1333.
48. _, SUHAYDA, J. N., LU, N.-Z., BORNHOLD, B. D., KELLER, G. H., WISEMAN, W. J., WRIGHT, L. D. & YANG, Z.-S. 1989. Storm wave reactivation of a submarine landslide. Nature, 341, 47-50.
49. RAVENNE, C. & BEGHIN, P. 1983. Apport des expériences en canal à l'interprétation sédimentologique des dépôts de cônes détritiques sous-marins. Revue de l'Institut Français du Pétrole, 38(3), 279-297.
50. REHAULT, J.-P. & BETHOUX, N. 1984. Earthquake relocation in the Ligurian Sea (western Mediterranean): geological interpretation. Marine Geology, 55, 429-445.
51. RIMOLDI, B., ALEXANDER, J. & MORRIS, S. A. 1996. Experimental turbidity currents entering density stratified water: analogues for turbidites in Mediterranean hypersaline basins. Sedimentology, 43, 527-540.
52. SAVOYE, B. & PIPER, D.J.W. 1991. The Messinian event on the margin of the Mediterranean Sea in the Nice area, southern France. Marine Geology, 97, 279-304.
53. ème Congrès Français de Sédimenlologie-ASF, 24-26 April 1995, Aix-Ies-Bains, Book of abstracts. Publication ASF, Paris, 22, 132.
54. _, PIPER, D. J. W. & DROZ, L. 1993. Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the Var deep-sea fan off the French Riviera. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 10, 550-571.
55. _, VOISSET, M., COCHONAT, P., AUFFRET, G. A., BOURILLET, J.-F., DROZ, L., OLLIER, G., COUTELLE, A., LE CANN, C., AUZENDE, J.-M. & ROBERT, S. 1988. 'Le canyon du Var': case study of a modern active proximal channel (abstract). American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, 72, 1023.
56. SHANMUGAM, G. 1996. High-density turbidity currents: are they sandy debris flows? Journal of Sedimentary Research, 66(1), 1-10.
57. SHEPARD, F. P., MCLOUGHLIN, P. A., MARSHALL, N. F. & SULLIVAN, G. G. 1977. Current-meter recordings of low-speed turbidity currents. Geology, 5, 297-301.
58. SKEMPTON, A. W. & HUTCHINSON, J. N. 1969. Stability of natural slopes and embankment foundations. State-of-the-art report. In: Proceedings 7th International Conference, SMFE, Mexico City, 2, 291-339.
59. SYVITSKI, J. P. M. & ALCOTT, J. M. 1995. RIVER3: Simulation of river discharge and sediment transport. Computers and Geosciences, 21(1), 89-151.
60. _ & FARROW, G. E. 1989. Fjord sedimentation as an analog for small hydrocarbon-bearing fan deltas. In: WHATELEY, M. K. G. & PICKERING, K. T. (eds) Deltas: Sites and Traps for Fossil Fuels. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 41, 21-43.
61. _ & LEWIS, A. G. 1992. The seasonal distribution of suspended particles and their iron and manganese loading in a glacial runoff fjord. Geoscience Canada, 19(1), 13-20.
62. _ & SCHAFER, C. T. 1996. Evidence for an earthquake-triggered basin collapse in Saguenay Fjord, Canada. Sedimentary Geology, 104, 127-153.
63. _, SMITH, J. N., CALABRESE, E. A. & BOUDREAU, B. P. 1988. Basin sedimentation and the growth of prograding deltas. Journal of Geophysical Research, 93, 6895-6908.
64. TERZAGHI, K. 1942. Theoretical Soil Mechanics. John Wiley, New York, 510 pp.
65. WARD, R. 1978. Floods. A Geographical Perspective. Focal Problem in Geography. Macmillan, London, 244 pp.
66. WILSON, P. A. & ROBERTS, H. H. 1995. Density cascading: off-shelf sediment transport, evidence and implications, Bahama Banks. Journal of Sedimentary Research, A65(1), 45-56.
67. WRIGHT, L. D., YANG, Z.-S., BORNHOLD, B. D., KELLER, G. H., PRIOR, D. B. & WISENAM, W. J. JR 1986. Hyperpycnal plumes and plume fronts over the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta front. Geo-Marine Letters, 6, 97-105.