Distal turbidites reveal a common distribution for large (>0.1 km3) submarine landslide recurrence

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 263-266

  Clare, Michael A ^a   Talling, Peter J ^a   Challenor, Peter ^b   Malgesini, Giuseppe ^a   Hunt, James ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; LONG RUN OUTS; POISSONIAN; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEQUENTIAL COMBINATION; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

CABLES; EARTHQUAKES; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; OCEAN CURRENTS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TSUNAMIS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

HAZARD ASSESSMENT; POISSON RATIO; SEAFLOOR; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

EID: 84896837047     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G35160.1     Document Type: Article

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