The 1996 AD delta collapse and large turbidite in Lake Brienz

Marine Geology

Volumn 241, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 137-154

  Girardclos, Stéphanie ^a   Schmidt, Oliver T ^b   Sturm, Mike ^b   Ariztegui, Daniel ^c   Pugin, André ^c   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

gravity flow; high resolution seismic; limnogeology; sediment core; tsunami

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATERS; GRAVITY FLOW; HIGH-RESOLUTION SEISMICS; LIMNOGEOLOGY; SEDIMENT CORES;

ECOLOGY; MASS TRANSFER; SAND; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; SILT; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TURBIDITY;

SURFACE WATERS;

DELTA; GRAVITY FLOW; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LIMNOLOGY; MASS TRANSPORT; RESOLUTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SLOPE FAILURE; TSUNAMI; TURBIDITE;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; BRIENZERSEE; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 34249744719     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Adams E.W., Schlager W., and Anselmetti F.S. Morphology and curvature of delta slopes in Swiss lakes: lessons for the interpretation of clinoforms in seismic data. Sedimentology 48 (2001) 661-679
2. Ammann S. Aktenzeichen «Brienzi» bleibt ungelöst. Der Bund 157 (1997) 2 (July 9)
3. Anselmetti, F.S., et al., in press. Effects of Alpine hydropower dams on particle transport and lacustrine sedimentation. Aquat. Sci. 69.
4. Assier-Rzadkiewicz S., Heinrich P., Sabatier P.C., Savoye B., and Bourillet J.-F. Numerical modelling of a landslide-generated tsunami: the 1979 Nice event. Pure Appl. Geophys. 157 10 (2000) 1707-1727
5. Baer M., et al. Earthquakes in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 1996. Eclogae Geol. Helv. 90 (1997) 557-567
6. Bohle-Carbonell M. Currents in Lake Geneva. Limnol. Oceanogr. 31 6 (1986) 1255-1266
7. Bouma A.H. Sedimentology of Some Flysch deposits: A Graphic Approach to Facies Interpretation (1962), Elsevier, Amsterdam 168 pp.
8. Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU - Abteilung Landeshydrologie und-geologie BWG. Hydrologische Daten: Abfluss von der Aare in Brienzwiler (Station 2019) (1993-1996) Bern
9. Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU - Abteilung Landeshydrologie und-geologie BWG. Hydrologische Daten: Wasserstand von Brienzersee in Ringgenberg (Station 2023) (1993-1996) Bern
10. Chapron E., Beck C., Pourchet M., and Deconinck J.-F. 1822 earthquake-triggered homogenite in Lake Le Bourget (NW Alps). Terra Nova 11 2/3 (1999) 86-92
11. Cita M.B., and Aloisi G. Deep-sea tsunami deposits triggered by the explosion of Santorini (3500 y BP), eastern Mediterranean. Sediment. Geol. 135 1-4 (2000) 181-203
12. Coleman J.M., and Prior D.B. Mass wasting on continental margins. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 16 1 (1988) 101-119
13. De Cesare G., Boillat J.-L., and Schleiss A.J. Circulation in stratified lakes due to flood-Induced turbidity currents. J. Environ. Eng. 132 11 (2006) 1508-1517
14. Fäh D., et al. Earthquake Catalog Of Switzerland (ECOS) and the related macroseismic database. Eclogae Geol. Helv. 96 (2003) 219-236
15. Fine I.V., Rabinovich A.B., Bornhold B.D., Thomson R.E., and Kulikov E.A. The Grand Banks landslide-generated tsunami of November 18, 1929: preliminary analysis and numerical modeling. Mar. Geol. 215 1-2 (2005) 45-57
16. Finger D., Schmid M., and Wüest A. Effects of upstream hydropower operation on riverine particle transport and turbidity in downstream lakes. Water Resources Research vol. 42 (2006) W08429 10.1029/2005WR004751
17. Hampton M.A., Lee H.J., and Locat J. Submarine landslides. Rev. Geophys. 34 1 (1996) 33-59
18. Hieke W. Transparent layers in seismic reflection records from the central Ionian Sea (Mediterranean)-evidence for repeated catastrophic turbidite sedimentation during the Quaternary. Sediment. Geol. 135 1-4 (2000) 89-98
19. Hieke W., and Werner F. The Augias megaturbidite in the central Ionian Sea (central Mediterranean) and its relation to the Holocene Santorini event. Sediment. Geol. 135 1-4 (2000) 205-218
20. Hsü K.J., and Kelts K. Swiss lakes as a geological laboratory. Part I: turbidity currents. Naturwissenschaften 72 (1985) 315-321
21. Ilstad T., Elverhoi A., Issler D., and Marr J.G. Subaqueous debris flow behaviour and its dependence on the sand/clay ratio: a laboratory study using particle tracking. Mar. Geol. 213 1-4 (2004) 415-438
22. Kelly C.A., and Chynoweth D.P. The contributions of temperature and of the input of organic matter in controlling rates of sediment methanogenesis. Limnol. Oceanogr. 26 5 (1981) 891-897
23. Kelts K., Briegel U., Ghilardi K., and Hsü K.J. The limnogeology-ETH coring system. Schweiz. Z. Hydrol. 48 1 (1986) 104-115
24. Lemmin U. Courantologie lémanique. Arch. Sci. C. R. Séances Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève 51 1 (1998) 103-120
25. Lemmin U., Mortimer C.H., and Bäuerle E. Internal seiche dynamics in Lake Geneva. Limnol. Oceanogr. 50 1 (2005) 207-216
26. Liechti P. Chapitre 15: Le Lac de Brienz. In: Liechti P. (Ed). L'état des lacs en Suisse. Cahier de l'Environnement-Office Fédéral de l'Environnement, des Forêts et du Paysage (OFEFP) (1994) 95-99 Berne
27. Lindsay J.F., Prior D.B., and Coleman J.M. Distributary-mouth bar development and role of submarine landslide in delta growth, South Pass, Mississippi delta. AAPG Bull. 68 11 (1984) 1732-1743
28. Maisch M., Wipf A., Denneler B., Battaglia J., and Benz C. Die Gletscher der Schweizer Alpen: Gletscherhochstand 1850, aktuelle Vergletscherung, Gletscherschwund-Szenarien (Schlussbericht NFP 31) (1999), vdf, Zürich 373 pp.
29. Matter A., Süsstrunk A.E., Hinz K., and Sturm M. Ergebnisse reflexionsseismischer Untersuchungen im Thunersee. Eclogae Geol. Helv. 64 3 (1971) 505-520
30. MeteoSwiss. Mean and maximum daily wind speed from Brienz-Kienholz station (1993-1996), Genève
31. Mohrig D., and Marr J.G. Constraining the efficiency of turbidity current generation from submarine debris flows and slides using laboratory experiments. Mar. Pet. Geol. 20 6-8 (2003) 883-899
32. Mulder T., and Alexander J. The physical character of subaqueous sedimentary density flows and their deposits. Sedimentology 48 2 (2001) 269-299
33. Mulder T., and Cochonat P. Classification of offshore mass movements. J. Sediment. Res. 66 1 (1996) 43-57
34. Mulder T., Migeon S., Savoye B., and Jouanneau J.M. Twentieth century floods recorded in the deep Mediterranean sediments. Geology 29 11 (2001) 1011-1014
35. Müller, B., et al., in press. Present and past bio-available phosphorous budget in the ultra-oligotrophic Lake Brienz. Aquat. Sci. 69.
36. Mutti E., Tinterri R., Benevelli G., di Biase D., and Cavanna G. Deltaic, mixed and turbidite sedimentation of ancient foreland basins. Mar. Pet. Geol. 20 6-8 (2003) 733-755
37. Nydegger P. Untersuchungen über Feinststofftransport in Flüssen und Seen, über Entstehung von Trübungshorizonten und zuflussbedingten Strömungen im Brienzersee und einigen Vergleichsseen. Beitr. Geol. Schweiz, Hydrol. 16 (1967) 1-92
38. Nydegger P. Strömungen in Seen. Untersuchungen in situ und an nachgebildeten Modellseen. Beitr. Geol. Schweiz, Klein. Mitt. 66 (1976) 141-177
39. Piper D.J.W. Turbidite muds and silts on deepsea fans and abyssal plains. In: Stanley D.J., and Kelling G. (Eds). Sedimentation in submarine canyons, fans and trenches. Hutchison and Ross, Stroudsburg (1978) 163-176
40. Piper D.J.W., and Aksu A.E. The source and origin of the 1929 Grand Banks turbidity current inferred from sediment budgets. Geo. Mar. Lett. 7 4 (1987) 177-182
41. Piper D.J.W., and Savoye B. Processes of late Quaternary turbidity current flow and deposition on the Var deep-sea fan, north-west Mediterranean Sea. Sedimentology 40 3 (1993) 557-582
42. Piper D.J.W., Cochonat P., and Morrison M.L. The sequence of events around the epicentre of the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: initiation of debris flows and turbidity current inferred from sidescan sonar. Sedimentology 46 (1999) 79-97
43. Press W.H., Teukolsky S.A., Vetterling W.T., and Flannery B.P. Numerical recipes in C. The Art of Scientific Computing. 2nd ed. (1988), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 130-136
44. Rayleigh L. On waves propagated along the plane surface of an elastic solid. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 17 (1885) 4-11
45. Rebesco M., Della Vedova B., Cernobori L., and Aloisi G. Acoustic facies of Holocene megaturbidites in the Eastern Mediterranean. Sediment. Geol. 135 1-4 (2000) 65-74
46. Reeder M.S., Rothwell R.G., and Stow D.A.V. Influence of sea level and basin physiography on emplacement of the late Pleistocene Herodotus Basin Megaturbidite, SE Mediterranean Sea. Mar. Pet. Geol. 17 2 (2000) 199-218
47. Schmidt, O., 1998. Brienzersee Turbiditereignis vom Frühjahr 1996, Diploma Thesis, ETH Zürich/EAWAG, Kastanienbaum, 92 pp.
48. Schneider J.-L., Pollet N., Chapron E., Wessels M., and Wassmer P. Signature of Rhine Valley sturzstrom dam failures in Holocene sediments of Lake Constance, Germany. Sediment. Geol. 169 (2004) 75-91
49. Schnellmann M., Anselmetti F.S., Giardini D., and McKenzie J.A. Mass movement-induced fold-and-thrust belt structures in unconsolidated sediments in Lake Lucerne (Switzerland). Sedimentology 52 2 (2005) 271-289
50. Stow D.A.V., and Shanmugam G. Sequence of structures in fine-grained turbidites: Comparison of recent deep-sea and ancient flysch sediments. Sediment. Geol. 25 1-2 (1980) 23-42
51. Sturm M. Die Oberflächensedimente des Brienzersees. Eclogae Geol. Helv. 69 1 (1976) 111-123
52. Sturm M., and Matter A. Turbidites and varves in Lake Brienz (Switzerland): deposition of clastic detritus by density currents. In: Matter A., and Tucker M.E. (Eds). Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments. Special Publications International Association of Sedimentologists (1978), Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford 147-168
53. Sultan N., et al. Triggering mechanisms of slope instability processes and sediment failures on continental margins: a geotechnical approach. Mar. Geol. 213 (2004) 291-321
54. Talling P.J., Amy L.A., Wynn R.B., Peakall J., and Robinson M. Beds comprising debrite sandwiched within co-genetic turbidite: origin and widespread occurrence in distal depositional environments. Sedimentology 51 1 (2004) 163-194
55. Thali M., et al. Die Fettwachsleiche aus dem Brienzersee: ein Fund aus dem Barock. Abstraktband Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rechtsmedizin (1998), Hannover
56. Thebrath B., Rothfuss F., Whiticar M.J., and Conrad R. Methane production in littoral sediment of Lake Constance. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 102 3-4 (1993) 279-289
57. Zeh M. Makaber Leichenfund als Indiz für ein Jahrhundertereignis / L'événement du siècle à Brienz. GSA Informationsbulletin (Amt für Gewässerschutz und Abfallwirtschaft des Kantons Bern) / OPED Bulletin d'information (Office de la protection des eaux et de la gestion des déchets du canton de Berne) vol. 1/97 (1997) 7-13
58. Zuffa G.G., Normark W.R., Serra F., and Brunner C.A. Turbidite megabeds in an oceanic rift valley recording jökulhlaups of Late Pleistocene glacial lakes of the western United States. J. Geol. 108 (2000) 253-274