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Accretionary Prisms and Convergent Margin Tectonics in the Northwest Pacific Basin (Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences #8)
Accretionary prisms in convergent margins are natural laboratories for exploring initial orogenic processes and mountain building episodes. They are also an important component of continental growth both vertically and laterally. Accretionary prisms are seismically highly active and their internal ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences
by Yujiro Ogawa • Jason Chaytor • Michael Strasser • Roger Urgeles • David Mosher • Ken Ikehara • Kiichiro Kawamura • Yasuhiro YamadaSubmarine mass movements represent major offshore geohazards due to their destructive and tsunami-generation potential. This potential poses a threat to human life as well as to coastal, nearshore and offshore engineering structures. Recent examples of catastrophic submarine landslide events that a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011