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Author : Coulter, S.E.; and Phillips, R.
Date : 2003.
Title : Simulating submarine slope instability initiation using centrifuge model testing.
Publication : European Geophysical Society (EGS) - American Geophysical Union (AGU) European Union of Geosciences (EUG) Joint Assembly. Nice, France, 06 - 11 April 2003. Geophysical Research Abstracts
Issue : 5:
Page(s) : 13855.
Abstract
COSTA is addressing the questions of why seafloor slope failures occur where they do, and with what frequency they occur. The original program has been comple-mented by COSTA-Canada. One of the tasks involves the study of the initiation of slope instability through numerical and centrifuge modelling. This paper reviews previous centrifuge studies related to submarine slope failure and presents the preparations for this task. The initiation of submarine slope instability has been attributed to triggers such as earthquakes, erosion, oversteepening, wave loading, and sedimentation. Centrifuge modelling has been used to simulate most of these loading conditions in similar boundary value problems.
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