Continental slope reconstruction after a giant mass failure, the example of the Matakaoa Margin, New Zealand

Marine Geology

Volumn 268, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 67-84

  Joanne, Cathy ^a   Collot, Jean Yves ^a   Lamarche, Geoffroy ^b   Migeon, Sébastien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

debris avalanche; mass transport deposit; slope failure; slope reconstruction; submarine instability; turbidites

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT; AVALANCHE PROCESS; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEBRIS AVALANCHES; DEBRIS FLOWS; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; DESTABILIZATION PROCESS; DIFFERENTIAL COMPACTION; HEMIPELAGIC SEDIMENTATION; MASS FAILURES; MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSIT; NEW ZEALAND; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS; REFLECTION DATA; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SLOPE ANGLES; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSPORT EVENTS;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DEBRIS; DEPOSITS; REPAIR; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SLOPE STABILITY; SUBMARINES; TECTONICS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

AVALANCHE; BATHYMETRY; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEPOCENTER; EROSION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAVITY; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SLOPE ANGLE; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBIDITE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 73049102069     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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