Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences
Recent global events such as the devastating 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami, the 2004 Sumatran tsunami and the 2006 SE Asia undersea network cable failure underscore the societal and economic effects of submarine mass movements. These events call upon the
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Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
Volume 28
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David C. Mosher • R. Craig Shipp Lorena Moscardelli • Jason D. Chaytor Christopher D.P. Baxter • Homa J. Lee Roger Urgeles Editors
Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences 4th International Symposium
David C. Mosher Natural Resources Canada Dartmouth, NS, Canada [email protected] Lorena Moscardelli University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA [email protected] Christopher D.P. Baxter University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, USA [email protected] Roger Urgeles Institute of Marine Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) [email protected]
R. Craig Shipp Shell International Exploration and Production Inc., Houston, TX, USA [email protected] Jason D. Chaytor Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA [email protected] Homa J. Lee United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-3070-2 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3071-9 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3071-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933588 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Dedication William R. Normark 1943–2008
Bruno Savoye 1959–2008
This book, “Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences IV”, is dedicated to the memory of two colleagues whose wide-ranging field studies did so much to advance our understanding of deep-water sedimentation systems: Drs. Bill Normark and Bruno Savoye. I had the good fortune to count them among my closest professional and personal friends. Both were sea-going scientists par excellence, both were warm and supportive individuals, who always had time for students, and both were modest about their own accomplishments. Although many will remember Bill for his work on turbidites and submarine fans, he made important early contributions to our understanding of submarine mass movements. Large slides are a significant component of deep-water terrigenous basins and thus did not escape Bill’s curiosity. In 1968, during his Ph.D. work, he acquired seabed imagery and sub-bottom profiles with the Scripps deeptow system over Ranger slide off Baja California. His 1974 and 1990 papers on this slide are classic Normark: meticulous use of multiple data sets and a clear mind as to what were the important issues. As Chief Scientist of the gloria cruise that mapped the seafloor around the Hawaiian islands, he was the first to appreciate the full extent of the flank-c
