Sediment Failure Affecting Muddy Contourites on the Continental Slope Offshore Northern Norway: Lessons Learned and Some Outstanding Issues

• Baeten NJ et al (2013) Morphology and origin of smaller-scale mass movements on the continental slope off northern Norway. Geomorphology 187:122–134

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Baeten NJ et al (2014) Origin of shallow submarine mass movements and their glide planes—Sedimentological and geotechnical analyses from the continental slope off northern Norway. J Geophys Res: Earth Surf 119, doi:10.1002/2013JF003068

  Google Scholar 

• Bryn P, Berg K, Forsberg CF, Solheim A, Kvalstad TJ (2005) Explaining the Storegga Slide. Mar Pet Geol 22:11–19

  Article  Google Scholar 

• De Blasio FV, Elverhøi A, Issler D, Harbitz CB, Bryn P, Lien R (2004) Flow models of natural debris flows originating from overconsolidated clay materials. Mar Geol 213:439–455

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Elverhøi A, Breien H, De Blasio FV, Harbitz CB, Pagliardi M (2010) Submarine landslides and the importance of the initial sediment composition for run-out length and final deposit. Ocean Dyn 60:1027–1046

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Faugères J-C, Stow DAV, Imberg P, Viana A (1999) Seismic features diagnostic of contourite drifts. Mar Geol 162:1–38

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Haflidason H et al (2004) The Storegga Slide: architecture, geometry and slide development. Mar Geol 213:201–234

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Hesse R, Khodabakhsh S, Klaucke I, Ryan WBF (1997) Asymmetrical turbid surface-plume deposition near ice-outlets of the Plesitocene ice sheet in the Labrador Sea. Geo-Mar Lett 17:179–187

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Hjelstuen BO, Eldholm O, Faleide JI (2007) Recurrent Pleistocene mega-failures on the SW Barents Sea margin. Earth Planet Sci Lett 258:605–618

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Jakobsson M et al (2012) The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) version 3.0. Geophys Res Lett 39:L12609. doi:10.1029/2012GL052219

  Google Scholar 

• L’Heureux J-S, Vanneste M, Rise L, Brendryen J, Forsberg CF, Nadim F, Longva O, Chand S, Kvalstad TJ, Haflidason H (2013) Stability, mobility and failure mechanism for landslides at the upper continental slope off Vesterålen, Norway. Mar Geol 346:192–207

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Laberg JS, Camerlenghi A (2008) The significance of contourites for submarine slope stability. Dev Sedimentol 60:537–556, Elsevier

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Laberg JS, Vorren TO (2000) The Trænadjupet Slide, offshore Norway – morphology, evacuation and triggering mechanisms. Mar Geol 171:95–114

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Laberg JS, Vorren TO, Knutsen S-M (1999) The Lofoten contourite drift off Norway. Mar Geol 159:1–6

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Laberg JS, Dahlgren T, Vorren TO, Haflidason H, Bryn P (2001) Seismic analyses of Cenozoic contourite drift development in the Northern Norwegian Sea. Mar Geophys Res 22:401–416

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Laberg JS, Vorren TO, Mienert J, Haflidason H, Bryn P, Lien R (2003) Preconditions leading to the Holocene Trænadjupet Slide offshore Norway. In: Locat J, Mienert J (eds) Submarine mass movements and their consequences. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, pp 247–254

  Chapter  Google Scholar 

• Laberg JS, Vorren TO, Kenyon NH, Ivanov M (2006) Frequency and triggering mechanisms of submarine landslides of the North Norwegian continental margin. Nor J Geol 86:155–161

  Google Scholar 

• Laberg JS, Baeten NJ, Lågstad P, Forwick M, Vorren TO (2013) Formation of a large submarine crack during the final stage of retrogressive mass wasting on the continental slope offshore northern Norway. Mar Geol 346:73–78

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Lekens WAH, Sejrup HP, Haflidason H, Petersen GØ, Hjelstuen B, Knorr G (2005) Laminated sediments preceding Heinrich event 1 in the northern North Sea and southern Norwegian Sea: origin, processes and regional linkage. Mar Geol 216:27–50

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Leroueil S (2001) Natural slopes and cuts: movement and failure mechanisms. Geotechnique 51(171):197–243

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Locat J, Leroueil S, Locat A, Lee H (2014) Weak layers: their definition and classification from a geotechnical perspective. In: Krastel S et al (eds) Submarine mass movements and their consequences, vol 37, Advances in natural and technological hazards research. Springer International Publishing, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8 1

  Google Scholar 

• Martin-Chivelet J, Fregenat-Martinez MA, Chacón B (2008) Traction structures in contourites. Dev Sedimentol 60:159–182, Elsevier

  Google Scholar 

• Piper DAW, Normark WR (2009) Processes that initiate turbidity currents and their influence on turbidites: a marine geology perspective. J Sediment Res 79:347–362

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Rise L, Ottesen D, Longva O, Solheim A, Andersen ES, Ayers S (2006) The Sklinnadjupet slide and its relation to the Elsterian glaciation on the mid-Norwegian margin. Mar Pet Geol 23:569–583

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Rise L, Bøe R, Riis F, Bellec VK, Laberg JS, Eidvin T, Elvenes S, Thorsnes T (2013) The Lofoten-Vesterålen continental margin, North Norway: canyons and mass-movement activity. Mar Pet Geol 45:134–149

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Strout JM, Tjelta T (2005) In situ pore pressures: what is their significance and how can they be reliably measured? Mar Pet Geol 22:275–285

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Vanneste M, Mienert J, Bünz S (2006) The Hinlopen Slide: a giant, submarine slope failure on the northern Svalbard margin, Arctic Ocean. Earth Planet Sci Lett 245:373–388

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Vanneste M et al (2012) Shallow landslides and their dynamics in coastal and deepwater environments, Norway. In: Yamada Y et al (eds) Submarine mass movements and their consequences (5th International Symposium). Springer, p 29–41

  Google Scholar 

• Vanneste M, Sultan N, Garziglia S, Forsberg CF, L’Heureux J-S (2014) Seafloor instabilities and sediment deformation processes: the need for integrated, multi-disciplinary investigations. Mar Geol 352:183–214

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Wessel P, Smith WHF (1998) Improved version of the generic mapping tools released. Eos Trans AGU 79:579

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Wiemer G, Kopf A (2015) Altered marine tephra deposits as potential slope failure planes? Geo-Mar Lett 35(4):305–314

  Google Scholar 

Download references