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    Cham : Springer
    Keywords: Earth sciences ; Earth Sciences ; Geology ; Oceanography ; Geomorphology ; Meereskunde ; Meeresboden ; Meeresgeologie ; Meeressediment ; Geomorphologie ; Meeresboden ; Sonar ; Topografie ; Hydroakustik ; Relief ; Geomorphographie
    Description / Table of Contents: This book on the current state of knowledge of submarine geomorphology aims to achieve the goals of the Submarine Geomorphology working group, set up in 2013, by establishing submarine geomorphology as a field of research, disseminating its concepts and techniques among earth scientists and professionals, and encouraging students to develop their skills and knowledge in this field. Editors have invited 30 experts from around the world to contribute chapters to this book, which is divided into 4 sections - (i) Introduction & history, (ii) Data & methods, (ii) Submarine landforms & processes and (iv) Conclusions & future directions. Each chapter provides a review of a topic, establishes the state-of-the-art, identifies the key research questions that need to be addressed, and delineates a strategy on how to achieve this. Submarine geomorphology is a priority for many research institutions, government authorities and industries globally. The book is useful for undergraduate and graduate students, and professionals with limited training in this field
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 556 p. 195 illus., 55 illus. in color, online resource)
    ISBN: 9783319578521
    Series Statement: Springer Geology
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Geography ; Oceanography ; Sedimentology ; Physical geography ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Meereskunde ; Massenbewegung
    Description / Table of Contents: Submarine mass movements are a hidden geohazard with large destructive potential for submarine installations and coastal areas. This hazard and associated risk is growing in proportion with increasing population of coastal urban agglomerations, industrial infrastructure, and coastal tourism. Also, the intensified use of the seafloor for natural resource production, and deep sea cables constitutes an increasing risk. Submarine slides may alter the coastline and bear a high tsunamogenic potential. There is a potential link of submarine mass wasting with climate change, as submarine landslides can uncover and release large amounts greenhouse gases, mainly methane, that are now stored in marine sediments. The factors that govern the stability of submarine slopes against failure, the processes that lead to slope collapses and the collapse processes by themselves need to be better understood in order to foresee and prepare society for potentially hazardous events. This book volume consists of a collection of cutting edge scientific research by international experts in the field, covering geological, geophysical, engineering and environmental aspects of submarine slope failures. The focus is on understanding the full spectrum of challenges presented by this major coastal and offshore geohazard
    Type of Medium: Book
    Pages: XVI, 683 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
    ISBN: 9783319009711
    Series Statement: Advances in natural and technological hazards research 37
    DDC: 551.46
    Language: English
    Note: Literaturangaben , Physical properties of sedimentsGas hydrates and role of interstitial fluids in submarine slope failure -- Slope stability and risk assessment -- Monitoring, observation and repeated surveys of active slope failure processes -- Understanding failure processes from submarine landslide geomorphology -- Interaction between ocean circulation and MTDs -- Landslide generated tsunamis -- Long-term record of submarine landslides and MTD paleoseismology -- Outcrops of ancient submarine landslides.
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    Keywords: Earth sciences ; Earth Sciences ; Sedimentology ; Oceanography ; Natural disasters ; Geotechnical engineering ; Physical geography ; Earth sciences ; Sedimentology ; Oceanography ; Natural disasters ; Geotechnical engineering ; Physical geography ; Konferenzschrift 2015 ; Submarine Gleitung ; Meeresgeologie ; Submarine Gleitung ; Massenbewegung ; Meeresgeologie ; Meeresboden ; Suspensionsströmung ; Submarine Gleitung ; Turbidit
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: Progress and Challenges -- Part I Submarine Mass Movement in Margin Construction and Economic Significance2. The Role of Submarine Landslides in the Law of the Sea -- 3. Fabric Development and Pore-Throat Reduction in a Mass-Transport Deposit in the Jubilee Gas Field, Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Consequences for the Sealing Capacity of MTDs -- 4. Seismic geomorphology of the Israel Slump Complex in the central Levant Basin (SE Mediterranean) -- 5. Multiple Megaslide Complexes and their Significance for the Miocene stratigraphic evolution of the offshore Amazon Basin -- 6. Kinematics of submarine slope failures in the deepwater Taranaki Basin, New Zealand -- Part II Failure dynamics from landslide geomorphology -- 7. Postglacial Mass Failures in the Inner Hardangerfjorden System, Western Norway -- 8. Onshore and offshore geomorphological features of the El Golfo debris avalanche (El Hierro, Canary Islands) -- 9. New insights on failure and post-failure dynamics of submarine landslides on the intra-slope Palmarola ridge (Central Tyrrhenian Sea) -- 10. Assessment of Canyon Wall Failure Process from Multibeam Bathymetry and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Observations, U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin -- 11. The Chuí Megaslide Complex: regional-scale submarine landslides on the Southern Brazilian Margin -- 12. Submarine landslides and incised canyons of the southeast Queensland continental margin -- 13. Novel method to map the morphology of submarine landslide headwall scarps using Remotely Operated Vehicles -- 14. Flow behaviour of a giant landslide and debris flow entering Agadir Canyon, NW Africa -- 15. Fine-Scale Morphology of Tubeworm Slump, Monterey Canyon -- 16. Submarine slide topography and the Distribution of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems: A Case Study in the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean) -- Part III Geotechnical aspects of mass movement -- 17. Shear Strength of Siliciclastic Sediments from Passive and Active Margins (0-100 meters below seafloor): Insights into Seismic Strengthening -- 18. A small volume calibration chamber for cone penetration testing (CPT) on submarine soils -- 19. Underwater Mass Movements in Lake Mjøsa, Norway -- 20. In situ cyclic softening of marine silts by vibratory CPTU at Orkdalsfjord test site, mid Norway -- 21. First results of the geotechnical in situ investigation for soil characterisation along the upper slope off Vesterålen - Northern Norway -- 22. A novel micro-shear tester for failure analysis of fine and cohesive granular matter -- 23. Knickpoint migration induced by landslide: Evidence from laboratory to field observations in Wabush Lake -- 24. Multiple flow slide experiment in the Westerschelde Estuary, The Netherlands -- Part IV Multidisciplinary case studies -- 25. Submarine mass wasting on Hovgaard Ridge, Fram Strait, European Arctic -- 26. 3D seismic investigations of Pleistocene Mass Transport Deposits and Glacigenic Debris Flows on the North Sea Fan, NE Atlantic Margin -- 27. Do embedded volcaniclastic layers serve as potential glide planes? – An integrated analysis from the Gela Basin offshore southern Sicily -- 28. Sediment failure affecting muddy contourites on the continental slope offshore northern Norway – lessons learned and some outstanding issues -- 29. Mass Wasting History within Lake Ohrid Basin (Albania/Macedonia) over the last 600ka -- 30. Implications of Sediment Dynamics in Mass Transport along the Pianosa Ridge (Northern Tyrrhenian Sea) -- 31. Late-Holocene Mass Movements in High Arctic East Lake, Melville Island (Western Canadian Arctic Archipelago) -- 32. Pleistocene Mass Transport Complexes off Barbados accretionary prism (Lesser Antilles) -- 33. Exploring the Influence of Deepwater Currents as Potential Triggers for Slope Instability -- Part V Tectonics and mass movements -- 34. French alpine foreland Holocene paleoseismicity revealed by coeval mass wasting deposits in glacial lakes -- 35. Spatial and temporal relation of submarine landslides and faults along the Israeli continental slope, eastern Mediterranean -- 36. Earthquake induced landslides in Lake Éternité, Québec, Canada -- 37. Large Mass Transport Deposits in Kumano Basin, Nankai Trough, Japan -- 38. Insights into Effectiveness of Simplified Seismic Displacement Procedures to Evaluate Earthquake Behavior of a Deepwater Slope -- Part VI Fluid flow and gas hydrates -- 39. Deriving the Rate of Salt Rise at the Cape Fear Slide Using New Seismic Data -- 40. Submarine slope instabilities coincident with shallow gas hydrate systems: insights from New Zealand examples -- 41. Eel Canyon Slump Scar and Associated Fluid Venting -- 42. Shallow gas and the development of a weak layer in submarine spreading, Hikurangi margin (New Zealand) -- 43. Stability of fine-grained sediments subject to gas hydrate dissociation in the Arctic continental margin -- Part VII Mass transport deposits in modern and outcrop sedimentology -- 44. Soft-sediment deformation associated with mass transport deposits of the aAnsa basin (Spanish Pyrenees) -- 45. Synsedimentary tectonics and mass wasting along the Alpine margin in Liassic time -- 46. Meso-scale kinematic indicators in exhumed mass transport deposits: definitions and implications -- 47. Morphodynamics of supercritical turbidity currents in the channel-lobe transition zone -- 48. Tiny fossils, big impact: the role of foraminifera-enriched condensed section in arresting the movement of a large retrogressive submarine landslide in the Gulf of Mexico -- 49. Inclusion of substrate blocks within a mass transport deposit: A case study from Cerro Bola, Argentina -- Part VIII Numerical and statistical analysis -- 50. GIS catalogue of submarine landslides in the Spanish Continental Shelf: potential and difficulties for susceptibility assessment -- 51. Tempo and triggering of large submarine landslides – Statistical analysis for hazard assessment -- 52. Morphological controls on submarine slab failures -- 53. Incorporating Correlated Variables into GIS-Based Probabilistic Submarine Slope Stability Assessments -- 54. Quantifying the key role of slope material peak strength – using Discrete Element simulations -- 55. Correction Factors for 1-D Runout Analyses of Selected Submarine Slides -- Part IX Tsunami generation from slope failure -- 56. Volcanic generation of tsunamis: Two New Zealand palaeo-events -- 57. Tsunami-genesis due to retrogressive landslides on an inclined seabed -- 58. Geothermal System as the Cause of the 1979 Landslide Tsunami in Lembata Island, Indonesia -- 59. Towards a spatial probabilistic submarine landslide hazard model for submarine canyons -- 60. Coupled modelling of the failure and tsunami of a submarine debris avalanche offshore central New Zealand -- 61. Observations of coastal landslide-generated tsunami under an ice cover: the case of Lac-des-Seize-Îles, Québec, Canada -- Index.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 621 p. 256 illus., 219 illus. in color, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2016
    ISBN: 9783319209791
    Series Statement: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research 41
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    Language: English
    Note: 1. Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: Progress and ChallengesPart  I Submarine Mass Movement in Margin Construction and Economic Significance2. The Role of Submarine Landslides in the Law of the Sea -- 3. Fabric Development and Pore-Throat Reduction in a Mass-Transport Deposit in the Jubilee Gas Field, Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Consequences for the Sealing Capacity of MTDs -- 4. Seismic geomorphology of the Israel Slump Complex in the central Levant Basin (SE Mediterranean) -- 5. Multiple Megaslide Complexes and their Significance for the Miocene stratigraphic evolution of the offshore Amazon Basin -- 6. Kinematics of submarine slope failures in the deepwater Taranaki Basin, New Zealand -- Part II Failure dynamics from landslide geomorphology -- 7. Postglacial Mass Failures in the Inner Hardangerfjorden System, Western Norway -- 8. Onshore and offshore geomorphological features of the El Golfo debris avalanche (El Hierro, Canary Islands) -- 9. New insights on failure and post-failure dynamics of submarine landslides on the intra-slope Palmarola ridge (Central Tyrrhenian Sea) -- 10. Assessment of Canyon Wall Failure Process from Multibeam Bathymetry and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Observations, U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin -- 11. The Chuí Megaslide Complex: regional-scale submarine landslides on the Southern Brazilian Margin -- 12. Submarine landslides and incised canyons of the southeast Queensland continental margin -- 13. Novel method to map the morphology of submarine landslide headwall scarps using Remotely Operated Vehicles -- 14. Flow behaviour of a giant landslide and debris flow entering Agadir Canyon, NW Africa -- 15. Fine-Scale Morphology of Tubeworm Slump, Monterey Canyon -- 16. Submarine slide topography and the Distribution of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems: A Case Study in the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean) -- Part III Geotechnical aspects of mass movement -- 17. Shear Strength of Siliciclastic Sediments from Passive and Active Margins (0-100 meters below seafloor): Insights into Seismic Strengthening -- 18. A small volume calibration chamber for cone penetration testing (CPT) on submarine soils -- 19. Underwater Mass Movements in Lake Mjøsa, Norway -- 20. In situ cyclic softening of marine silts by vibratory CPTU at Orkdalsfjord test site, mid Norway -- 21. First results of the geotechnical in situ investigation for soil characterisation along the upper slope off Vesterålen - Northern Norway -- 22. A novel micro-shear tester for failure analysis of fine and cohesive granular matter -- 23. Knickpoint migration induced by landslide: Evidence from laboratory to field observations in Wabush Lake -- 24. Multiple flow slide experiment in the Westerschelde Estuary, The Netherlands -- Part IV Multidisciplinary case studies -- 25. Submarine mass wasting on Hovgaard Ridge, Fram Strait, European Arctic -- 26. 3D seismic investigations of Pleistocene Mass Transport Deposits and Glacigenic Debris Flows on the North Sea Fan, NE Atlantic Margin -- 27. Do embedded volcaniclastic layers serve as potential glide planes? - An integrated analysis from the Gela Basin offshore southern Sicily -- 28. Sediment failure affecting muddy contourites on the continental slope offshore northern Norway - lessons learned and some outstanding issues -- 29. Mass Wasting History within Lake Ohrid Basin (Albania/Macedonia) over the last 600ka -- 30. Implications of Sediment Dynamics in Mass Transport along the Pianosa Ridge (Northern Tyrrhenian Sea) -- 31. Late-Holocene Mass Movements in High Arctic East Lake, Melville Island (Western Canadian Arctic Archipelago) -- 32. Pleistocene Mass Transport Complexes off Barbados accretionary prism (Lesser Antilles) -- 33. Exploring the Influence of Deepwater Currents as Potential Triggers for Slope Instability -- Part V Tectonics and mass movements -- 34. French alpine foreland Holocene paleoseismicity revealed by coeval mass wasting deposits in glacial lakes -- 35. Spatial and temporal relation of submarine landslides and faults along the Israeli continental slope, eastern Mediterranean -- 36. Earthquake induced landslides in Lake Éternité, Québec, Canada -- 37. Large Mass Transport Deposits in Kumano Basin, Nankai Trough, Japan -- 38. Insights into Effectiveness of Simplified Seismic Displacement Procedures to Evaluate Earthquake Behavior of a Deepwater Slope -- Part VI Fluid flow and gas hydrates -- 39. Deriving the Rate of Salt Rise at the Cape Fear Slide Using New Seismic Data -- 40. Submarine slope instabilities coincident with shallow gas hydrate systems: insights from New Zealand examples -- 41. Eel Canyon Slump Scar and Associated Fluid Venting -- 42. Shallow gas and the development of a weak layer in submarine spreading, Hikurangi margin (New Zealand) -- 43. Stability of fine-grained sediments subject to gas hydrate dissociation in the Arctic continental margin -- Part VII Mass transport deposits in modern and outcrop sedimentology -- 44. Soft-sediment deformation associated with mass transport deposits of the aAnsa basin (Spanish Pyrenees) -- 45. Synsedimentary tectonics and mass wasting along the Alpine margin in Liassic time -- 46. Meso-scale kinematic indicators in exhumed mass transport deposits: definitions and implications -- 47. Morphodynamics of supercritical turbidity currents in the channel-lobe transition zone -- 48. Tiny fossils, big impact: the role of foraminifera-enriched condensed section in arresting the movement of a large retrogressive submarine landslide in the Gulf of Mexico -- 49. Inclusion of substrate blocks within a mass transport deposit: A case study from Cerro Bola, Argentina -- Part VIII Numerical and statistical analysis -- 50. GIS catalogue of submarine landslides in the Spanish Continental Shelf: potential and difficulties for susceptibility assessment -- 51. Tempo and triggering of large submarine landslides - Statistical analysis for hazard assessment -- 52. Morphological controls on submarine slab failures -- 53. Incorporating Correlated Variables into GIS-Based Probabilistic Submarine Slope Stability Assessments -- 54. Quantifying the key role of slope material peak strength - using Discrete Element simulations -- 55. Correction Factors for 1-D Runout Analyses of Selected Submarine Slides -- Part IX Tsunami generation from slope failure -- 56. Volcanic generation of tsunamis: Two New Zealand palaeo-events -- 57. Tsunami-genesis due to retrogressive landslides on an inclined seabed -- 58. Geothermal System as the Cause of the 1979 Landslide Tsunami in Lembata Island, Indonesia -- 59. Towards a spatial probabilistic submarine landslide hazard model for submarine canyons -- 60. Coupled modelling of the failure and tsunami of a submarine debris avalanche offshore central New Zealand -- 61. Observations of coastal landslide-generated tsunami under an ice cover: the case of Lac-des-Seize-Îles, Québec, Canada -- Index.
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    Geological Society London
    In:  In: Subaqueous Mass Movements and their Consequences: Advances in Process Understanding, Monitoring and Hazard. , ed. by Georgiopoulou, A. Special Publications Geological Society London, 500 . Geological Society London, London, pp. 13-26.
    Publication Date: 2020-08-03
    Description: Volcanic archipelagos are a source of numerous on- and offshore geohazards, including explosive eruptions and potentially tsunamigenic large-scale flank-collapses. Fogo Island in the southern Cape Verdes is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, making it both prone to collapse (as evidenced by the ca. 73 ka Monte Amarelo volcanic flank-collapse), and a source of widely-distributed tephra and volcanic material. The offshore distribution of the Monte Amarelo debris avalanche deposits and the surrounding volcaniclastic apron were previously mapped using only medium-resolution bathymetric data. Here, using recently acquired, higher resolution acoustic data, we revisit Fogo's flank-collapse, and find evidence suggesting that the deposition of hummocky volcanic debris originating from the failed eastern flank most likely triggered the contemporaneous, multi-phase failure of pre-existing seafloor sediments. Additionally, we identify, for the first time, multiple mass-transport deposits in the southern part of the volcaniclastic apron of Fogo and Santiago based on the presence of acoustically chaotic deposits in parametric echo sounder data and volcaniclastic turbiditic sands in recovered cores. These preliminary findings indicate a long and complex history of instability on the southern slopes of Fogo and suggest that Fogo may have experienced multiple flank collapses.
    Type: Book chapter , NonPeerReviewed
    Format: text
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    Geological Society London
    In:  In: Subaqueous Mass Movements and their Consequences: Advances in Process Understanding, Monitoring and Hazard Assessments. , ed. by Georgiopoulou, A. Special Publications Geological Society London, 500 . Geological Society London, London, pp. 551-566.
    Publication Date: 2020-08-03
    Description: The Tuaheni Landslide Complex (TLC) is characterised by areas of compression upslope and extension downslope. It has been thought to consist of a stack of two genetically linked landslide units identified on seismic data. We use 3D seismic reflection, bathymetry data, and IODP core U1517C (Expedition 372), to understand the internal structures, deformation mechanisms and depositional processes of the TLC deposits. Unit II and Unit III of U1517C correspond to the two chaotic units in 3D seismic data. In the core, Unit II shows deformation whereas Unit III appears more like an in situ sequence. Variance attribute analysis shows that Unit II is split in lobes around a coherent stratified central ridge and is bounded by scarps. By contrast, we find that Unit III is continuous beneath the central ridge and has an upslope geometry that we interpret as a channellevee system. Both units show evidence of lateral spreading due to the presence of the Tuaheni Canyon removing support from the toe. Our results suggest that Unit II and Unit III are not genetically linked, that they are separated substantially in time and they had different emplacement mechanisms, but fail under similar circumstances.
    Type: Book chapter , NonPeerReviewed
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    Publication Date: 2022-03-07
    Description: Coastal and ocean island volcanoes are renowned for having unstable flanks. This can lead to flank deformation on a variety of temporal and spatial scales ranging from slow creep to catastrophic sector collapse. A large section of these unstable flanks is often below sea level, where information on the volcano-tectonic structure and ground deformation is limited. Consequently, kinematic models that attempt to explain measured ground deformation onshore associated with flank instability are poorly constrained in the offshore area. Here, we attempt to determine the locations and the morpho-tectonic structures of the boundaries of the submerged unstable southeastern flank of Mount Etna (Italy). The integration of new marine data (bathymetry, microbathymetry, offshore seismicity, reflection seismic lines) and published marine data (bathymetry, seafloor geodesy, reflection seismic lines) allows identifying the lineament north of Catania Canyon as the southern lateral boundary with a high level of confidence. The northern and the distal (seaward) boundaries are less clear because no microbathymetric or seafloor geodetic data are available. Hypotheses for their locations are presented. Geophysical imaging suggests that the offshore Timpe Fault System is a shallow second-order structure that likely results from extensional deformation within the moving flank. Evidence for active uplift and compression upslope of the amphitheater-shaped depression from seismic data along with subsidence of the onshore Giarre Wedge block observed in ground deformation data leads us to propose that this block is a rotational slump, which moves on top of the large-scale instability. The new shoreline-crossing structural assessment may now inform and improve kinematic models.
    Description: Published
    Description: 810790
    Description: 2V. Struttura e sistema di alimentazione dei vulcani
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: seafloor ; fault ; flank dynamics ; hydroacoustic ; geodesy ; seismic profiles ; 04.07. Tectonophysics ; 04.08. Volcanology ; 04.06. Seismology ; 04.02. Exploration geophysics ; 05.02. Data dissemination
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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    Publication Date: 2022-02-14
    Description: Marine seismic reflection data coupled with on-land structural measurements improve our knowledge about the active deformation pattern of the northern sector of the Malta Escarpment, a bathymetric and structural discontinuity in the near-offshore of Eastern Sicily. As favourably oriented to be reactivated within the Neogene Africa–Europe convergence, it is believed that the Malta Escarpment has a significant role in the recent seismotectonic framework of the Western Ionian Basin and the Hyblean foreland domain of SE Sicily, where some of the largest and most destructive Mediterranean earthquakes are located according to available historical catalogs. Offshore seismic data along with bathymetric grids illuminate the shallow subseafloor setting and allow more accurate mapping of the seafloor expression of previously identified faults in the area. The seismic interpretation and the nearfault sediment pattern analysis provide constraints on fault 3D geometries as well as on their through-time tectonic activity, suggesting also that part of the observed deformation may have been caused by nontectonic processes. Identified faults form currently an E-dipping, roughly N–S trending, and 60 km-long extensional belt deforming the seafloor with a significant displacement amount in the Ionian offshore between Catania and Siracusa. 3-dimensional parameters of faults were then used to derive expected magnitudes and their reactivation propensity. Empirical scaling relationships and forward methods point to a high seismic potential for the detected fault as well as predict the fault slip behavior according to the fieldderived differential stress. This combined analysis along with faults displacement measurements pointed out how the longest and most continuous fault could be capable of generating M 〉 7 seismic events, putting forward strong seismotectonic implications for the adjacent and densely populated Hyblean Plateau. The expected magnitude and the estimated recurrence time interval are compatible with those inferred for large historical earthquakes in the area even if other offshore seismic sources cannot be ruled out.
    Description: Published
    Description: 594176
    Description: 2T. Deformazione crostale attiva
    Description: JCR Journal
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-27
    Description: Argnani (2021) provides a commentary (hereafter ARGN) on our paper titled: “Deformation Pattern of the Northern Sector of the Malta Escarpment: Fault Dimension, Slip Prediction, and Seismotectonic Implications,” which was published in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science in January 2021 (Gambino et al., 2021, hereafter GAMB). Through the interpretation of eight new seismic profiles (six of which are reported in Supplementary Figure S1 of GAMB) crossing the Malta Escarpment, GAMB pointed to a better definition of the geometry of three active faults (F1, F2, F3) and their seismic potential by employing slip tendency modeling and forward analysis. The results suggest that F3 is prone to be reactivated under the achieved stress field and has the capacity of generating M 〉 7 earthquakes. ARGN raises concerns about the higher resolution and less penetration of the eight newly acquired high-resolution multichannel reflection seismic profiles and the seismic-stratigraphic pattern proposed by GAMB. According to ARGN, “the seismic profiles analyzed by GAMB belong to different sets and have very different seismic characters and resolution, making seismic facies correlation pretty difficult, also because no tie lines are available. As a result, stratigraphic correlations are highly speculative and the ensuing uncertainties undermine the timing of the tectonic evolution envisaged by GAMB, as well as the age and rate of activity of tectonic structures.” Furthermore, ARGN argues on the hypothesis of an early large-scale slope instability affecting the area. Most of the statements of ARGN seem to be based on his available older multichannel reflection seismic profiles, which have, indeed, a higher penetration but less resolution. We also agree that high-resolution digital multichannel seismic profiles are not easily comparable with low-resolution multichannel seismic lines, but we see the clear advantage of a state-of-the-art technology to image the upper strata of sedimentary systems. The used system proved its robustness in many different settings worldwide and has been successfully used for many pre-site surveys for drilling campaigns for the IODP and ICDP. As a result, we rebut point-by-point ARGN’s comments and stand by our model on the active deformation pattern and seismotectonics of the northern sector of the Malta Escarpment.
    Description: Published
    Description: 886439
    Description: 2T. Deformazione crostale attiva
    Description: JCR Journal
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
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