Preface -- Section I: Physical Properties of Sediments and Slope Stability Assessment -- Section II:¡Seafloor Geomorphology for Trigger Mechanisms and¡Landslide Dynamics -- Section III: Role of Fluid Flow in Slope Instability -- Section IV: Mechanics of Mass Wasting in Subduction Margins -- Section V: Post-Failure Dynamics -- Section VI: Landslide Generated Tsunamis.-¡ Section VII: Witnessing and Quasi-Witnessing of Slope Failures -- Section VIII: Architecture of Mass Transport Deposits/Complexes -- Section IX: Relevance of¡Natural Climate Change in¡Triggering Slope Failures.-¡Index
Summary
Submarine mass movements represent major offshore geohazards due to their destructive and tsunami-generation potential. This potential poses a threat to human life as well as to coastal, nearshore and offshore engineering structures. Recent examples of catastrophic submarine landslide events that affected human populations (including tsunamis) are numerous; e.g., Nice airport in 1979, Papua-New Guinea in 1998, Stromboli in 2002, Finneidfjord in 1996, and the 2006 and 2009 failures in the submarine cable network around Taiwan. The Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 also generated submari
