Large, deepwater slope failures: Implications for landslide-generated tsunamis

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 931-934

  Iacono, Claudio Lo ^a,b   Gràcia, Eulàlia ^a   Zaniboni, Filippo ^c   Pagnoni, Gianluca ^c   Tinti, Stefano ^c   Bartolomé, Rafael ^a   Masson, Douglas G ^b   Wynn, Russell B ^b   Lourenccedil, Nuno ^d   de Abreu, Manuel Pinto ^d   Dañobeitia, Juan José ^a   Zitellini, Nevio ^e  

^a CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d Estrutura de Missão para a Extensão da Plataforma Continental   (Portugal)

^e ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TSUNAMIS;

ACTIVE MARGINS; GORRINGE BANKS; MASS FAILURES; PORTUGUESE COAST; SLOPE FAILURE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRIGGER MECHANISM; TSUNAMI SIMULATION;

LANDSLIDES;

ACTIVE MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP WATER; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TSUNAMI;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GORRINGE BANK; IBERIAN MARGIN;

EID: 84868693659     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33446.1     Document Type: Article

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