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  2. Submarine landslide - Wikipedia

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    Submarine landslides are marine landslides that transport sediment across the continental shelf and into the deep ocean. A submarine landslide is initiated when the downwards driving stress (gravity and other factors) exceeds the resisting stress of the seafloor slope material, causing movements along one or more concave to planar rupture surfaces.

  3. Turbidity current - Wikipedia

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    A turbidity current is most typically an underwater current of usually rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope; although current research (2018) indicates that water-saturated sediment may be the primary actor in the process. [1] Turbidity currents can also occur in other fluids besides water.

  4. Landslide - Wikipedia

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    Landslides that occur undersea, or have impact into water e.g. significant rockfall or volcanic collapse into the sea, [42] can generate tsunamis. Massive landslides can also generate megatsunamis, which are usually hundreds of meters high. In 1958, one such tsunami occurred in Lituya Bay in Alaska. [43] [44]

  5. Turbidite - Wikipedia

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    This condition occurs in many environments aside from simply the deep ocean, where turbidites are particularly well represented. Lahars on the side of volcanoes, mudslides and pyroclastic flows all create density-based flow situations and, especially in the latter, can create sequences which are strikingly similar to turbidites.

  6. Marine sediment - Wikipedia

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    Marine sediment, or ocean sediment, or seafloor sediment, are deposits of insoluble particles that have accumulated on the seafloor.These particles either have their origins in soil and rocks and have been transported from the land to the sea, mainly by rivers but also by dust carried by wind and by the flow of glaciers into the sea, or they are biogenic deposits from marine organisms or from ...

  7. Most common causes of mudslides and landslides - AOL

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    There are many reasons as to why they occur, let's go over some of the more common causes. If you live in a mountainous region, mudslides or landslides are more common. There are many reasons as ...

  8. Most common causes of mudslides and landslides - AOL

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    Mudslides and landslides can cause extensive property damage and even be fatal. Here's a look at the causes of and differences between them.

  9. Submarine canyon - Wikipedia

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    A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley cut into the seabed of the continental slope, sometimes extending well onto the continental shelf, having nearly vertical walls, and occasionally having canyon wall heights of up to 5 km (3 mi), from canyon floor to canyon rim, as with the Great Bahama Canyon. [1]