Submarine landslides and the importance of the initial sediment composition for run-out length and final deposit

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1027-1046

  Elverhoi, Anders ^a,b   Breien, Hedda ^b   De Blasio, Fabio V ^a   Harbitz, Carl B ^b   Pagliardi, Matteo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c FLOW ING SrlPza   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydroplaning; Modelling; Rheology; Submarine debris flows; Submarine landslides

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL DEBRIS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DYNAMIC PROCESS; HYDROPLANING; KEY CONTROL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MASS MOVEMENT; MODELLING; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SEDIMENT COMPOSITION; SUBMARINE DEBRIS FLOWS; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DEBRIS; ELASTICITY; LANDSLIDES; OCEAN CURRENTS; RHEOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TURBIDITY; VISCOSITY;

SUBMARINES;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEBRIS FLOW; DEPOSITION; LABORATORY METHOD; LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT; MOBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SUBMARINE; TURBIDITY;

EID: 77956231680     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0317-z     Document Type: Article

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