Unbekannt
Springer
In:
In: European Margin Sediment Dynamics: Side-scan Sonar and Seismic Images. , ed. by Mienert, J. and Weaver, P. Springer, Berlin, pp. 293-296. ISBN 3-540-42393-1
Publikationsdatum:
2020-04-03
Beschreibung:
The Canary Archipelago, located off the West African continental margin, is one of the largest oceanic island groups in the ocean basins (Fig. 1). A general but slightly diffuse westward age progression of the shield phases of the islands was interpreted as evidence for a hot spot origin of the Canary Islands (Wilson 1973; Schmincke 1982; Carracedo et al. 1998). During the last 15 years, morphological studies of the submarine flanks of ocean islands with swath bathymetry, sidescan sonar and high-resolution seismic systems have demonstrated that giant submarine landslides play an important role during the evolut ion of volcanic islands. Landslides on ocean islands are one of the most important transport processes of volcaniclastic material into the volcanic apron. They are a major geological hazard due to the sector collapses themselves as weil as triggering of tsunamis.
Materialart:
Book chapter
,
NonPeerReviewed
Format:
text
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-55846-7_49
Permalink
|
Standort |
Signatur |
Einschränkungen |
Verfügbarkeit |
