Subaqueous mass movements consequences (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 596 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour). The challenges facing submarine mass movement researchers and engineers are plentiful and exciting. This book follows several high-profile submarine landslide disasters that have reached the world s attention over the past few years. For decades, researchers have been mapping the world s mass movements. Their significant impacts on the Earth by distributing sediment on phenomenal scales is undeniable. Their importance in the origins of buried resources has long been understood. Their hazard potential ranges from damaging to apocalyptic, frequently damaging local infrastructure and sometimes devastating whole coastlines. Moving beyond mapping advances, the subaqueous mass movement scientists and practitioners are now also focussed on assessing the consequences of mass movements, and the measurement and modelling of events, hazard analysis and mitigation. Many state-of-the-art examples are provided in this book, which is produced under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Program S4SLIDE (Significance of Modern and Ancient Submarine Slope LandSLIDEs).…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. vii, 639 pages : illustrations (some colour), coloured maps ; 26 cm. This GSL volume focuses on underwater or subaqueous landslides with the overarching goal of understanding how they affect society and the environment. The new research presented here is the result of significant advances made over recent years in directly monitoring submarine landslides, in standardising global datasets for quantitative analysis, constructing a global database, and leading international research projects. This volume demonstrates the breadth of investigation taking place into subaqueous landslides, and shows that while events like the recent ones in the Indonesian archipelago can be devastating they are at the smaller end of what the Earth has experienced in the past. Understanding the spectrum of subaqueous landslide processes, and therefore the potential societal impact, requires research across all spatial and temporal scales. This volume delivers a compilation of state-of-the-art papers covering topics from regional landslide databases to advanced techniques for in situ measurements, to numerical modelling of processes and hazards.…

London, The Geological Society of London, 2019. VII,[1],609 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (boards). 8vo. (Geological Society special publication, no. 477). [ISBN: 9781786203823]. - As new.Subaqueous landslides are a common slope process in the geological record. In addition to their geological significance, they pose a risk to offshore infrastructure and can trigger destructive tsunamis affecting coastal communities. This volume offers a multi-disciplinary approach to document better the still poorly understood frequency and dynamics of subaqueous landslides. - - Publisher's retail price: 175,--.…