Sentences with phrase «submarine landslides in»

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Although this is one of the best - mapped continental margins in the world, significant gaps still remain along the upper slope and shelf where potentially dangerous submarine landslides might occur.

«The evaluation of submarine landslides as potential tsunami sources along the U.S. East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico and the investigation of submarine canyon systems in the Atlantic are ongoing projects,» Chaytor said.

Layers of ooze in the seabed may be responsible for submarine «megaslides» that dwarf ordinary landslides and can cause tsunamis

This could trigger landslides on steep submarine slopes in the area, unleashing tsunamis capable of hitting the UK, and releasing buried methane that could amplify global warming.

Comparison with recent studies elsewhere has shown that similar, frequent, small volume landslides may be a fundamental mechanism in the long - term evolution of active submarine volcanoes.

Details of the discovery of the submarine landslide and tsunami were published this week in Marine Geology.

But he emphatically agrees with the authors of the Science Advances paper that the threat posed by collapsing volcanic slope and submarine landslides has been overlooked in the tsunami hazard field.

It used measurements from 195 core samples containing submarine landslide deposits caused by subduction zone earthquakes, instead of only about a dozen such samples in past research.

A submarine landslide might release a Gigaton of carbon as methane (Archer, 2007), but the radiative effect of that would be small, about equal in magnitude (but opposite in sign) to the radiative forcing from a volcanic eruption.

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«As long as the scientists in the Siberian Arctic are not able to report very strong increases in submarine landslides and slope failures, I wouldn't expect that the release into the atmosphere is so severe that it is really very serious at the moment,» Schwark added.