Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences 1st [first] International Symposium

Section 1 - Fundamental aspects.- FLOW LIQUEFACTION FAILURE OF SUBMARINE SLOPES DUE TO MONOTONIC LOADINGS-AN EFFECTIVE STRESS APPROACH.- FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF RETROGRESSIVE FAILURE OF SUBMARINE SLOPES.- STABILITY CONDITIONS OF ACCUMULATIVE FORMS OF SEDIMENTS ON SUBMARINE SLOPES.- SIMULATING SUBMARINE SLOPE INSTABILITY INITIATION USING CENTRIFUGE MODEL TESTING.- LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL OF GASSY MARINE SANDS.- CYCLIC STRENGTH OF STRATIFIED SOIL SAMPLES.- TOWARDS AN APPROACH FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF RISK ASSOCIATED WITH SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS.- FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF LANDSLIDE IN DREDGED SLOPE.- NUMERICAL MODELING OF TSUNAMI GENERATION BY SUBAERIAL AND SUBMERGED LANDSLIDES.- DEVELOPING ENGINEERING DESIGN CRITERIA FOR MASS GRAVITY FLOWS IN DEEP OCEAN AND CONTINENTAL SLOPE ENVIRONMENTS.- THE DYNAMICS OF LIQUEFIED SEDIMENT FLOW UNDERGOING PROGRESSIVE SOLIDIFICATION.- EFFECT OF GAS HYDRATES DISSOCIATION ON SEAFLOOR SLOPE STABILITY.- WAVES AND RUN-UP GENERATED BY A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SLIDING MASS.- TSUNAMI SOURCE PARAMETERS OF SUBMARINE EARTHQUAKES AND SLIDES.- STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COHESIVE GRAVITY-FLOW DEPOSITS, AND A SEDIMENTOLOGICAL APPROACH ON THEIR FLOW MECHANISMS.- ROLE OF PORE-FLUID PRESSURE AND SLOPE ANGLE IN TRIGGERING SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS: NATURAL EXAMPLES AND PILOT EXPERIMENTAL MODELS.- HYDRO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF GASSY SOILS.- EVALUATING TSUNAMI HAZARDS FROM DEBRIS FLOWS.- PROBABILISTIC ANALYSES OF LANDSLIDE TSUNAMI HAZARDS.- AN INNOVATIVE DOUBLE CELL TRIAXIAL SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT OF THE VOLUME CHANGE OF GASEOUS OR UNSATURATED MARINE SOILS AND TWO OTHER ADVANCED SOIL TESTING SYSTEMS.- NUMERICAL MODELING OF SUBMARINE MASS-MOVEMENT GENERATED WAVES USING RANS MODEL.- DISPLACEMENT ANALYSIS OF SUBMARINE SLOPES USING ENHANCED NEWMARK METHOD.- Section 2 - Altantic Ocean.- IMAGING THE AFEN SLIDE FROM COMMERCIAL 3D SEISMIC - METHODOLOGY AND COMPARISONS WITH HIGH-RESOLUTION DATA.- THE STOREGGA SLIDE COMPLEX; REPEATED LARGE SCALE SLIDING IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATIC CYCLICITY.- DYNAMICS, VELOCITY AND RUN-OUT OF THE GIANT STOREGGA SLIDE.- ISSUES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF GRAVITY MASS FLOW HAZARD IN THE STOREGGA AREA OFF THE WESTERN NORWEGIAN COAST.- SHEAR-STRENGTH SIGNATURES OF MASS MOVEMENTS, CONTINENTAL SLOPE OF CAMPOS BASIN, BRAZIL.- PRECONDITIONS LEADING TO THE HOLOCENE TRÆNADJUPET SLIDE OFFSHORE NORWAY.- SLOPE STABILITY ASSESSMENT OF THE TRÆNADJUPET SLIDE AREA OFFSHORE THE MID-NORWEGIAN MARGIN.- STABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE HUDSON APRON SLOPE, OFF NEW JERSEY, U.S.A..- SLOPE FAILURES IN THE FAROE - SHETLAND CHANNEL.- A SYNTHESIS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS ON THE EASTERN CANADIAN MARGIN.- THE CHRONOLOGY AND RECURRENCE OF SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENTS ON THE CONTINENTAL SLOPE OFF SOUTHEASTERN CANADA.- INTERPLAY BETWEEN SALT ACTIVITIES AND SLOPE INSTABILITIES, BRYANT CANYON AREA, NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO.- THE AFEN SLIDE - A MULTISTAGED SLOPE FAILURE IN THE FAROE-SHETLAND CHANNEL.- CANARY ISLANDS LANDSLIDES AND TSUNAMI GENERATION: CAN WE USE TURBIDITE DEPOSITS TO INTERPRET LANDSLIDE PROCESSES?.- Section 3 - Pacific Ocean.- SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES IN SOCIETY AND AUSTRAL ISLANDS, FRENCH POLYNESIA: EVOLUTION WITH THE AGE OF EDIFICES.- MASS MOVEMENT ALONG THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA MARGIN AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR TSUNAMI GENERATION.- CHARACTERISTICS OF SEVERAL TSUNAMIGENIC SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES.- CHARACTERISTICS OF LANDSLIDE GENERATED TSUNAMIS FROM OBSERVATIONAL DATA.- SLOPE FAILURES AND PALEOSEISMICITY, EFFINGHAM INLET, SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.- ARCHITECTURE AND FAILURE MECHANISM OF THE OFFSHORE SLUMP RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 1998 PAPUA NEW GUINEA TSUNAMI.- Section 4 - Inners seas.- SUBMARINE MASS MOVEMENT ON THE EBRO SLOPE.- MORPHOBATHYMETRY OF SMALL-SCALE MUD RELIEFS ON THE ADRIATIC SHELF.- CANNIBALIZATION OF A CONTINENTAL MARGIN BY REGIONAL SCALE MASS WASTING: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE CENTRAL TYRRHENIAN SEA.- EVOLUTIONARY GRAVITY FLOW DEPOSITS IN THE MIDDLE TURONIAN - EARLY CONIACI