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Conference on Continental margin mass wasting and Pleistocene sea-level changes, August 13-15, 1980

Circular 961
Edited by: David W. Folger and John C. Hathaway
https://doi.org/10.3133/cir961

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Abstract

A conference on Continental Margin Mass Wasting and Pleistocene Sea-Level Changes was held in Woods Hole, Mass., August 13-15, 1980. Forty-seven participants, representing many government, academic, and industrial organizations, discussed the current state of knowledge of the features of marine mass wasting and of the interrelations of factors influencing them. These factors include sediment source, composition, textures, sedimentation rates, climatic and sea-level changes, gas and gas hydrate (clathrate) contents of sediments, geotechnical characteristics, oceanographic and morphological factors, ground-water processes, and seismic events. The part played by these factors in the processes and features of mass movement and the engineering considerations imposed by the emplacement of manmade structures on the sea floor were considered vital to the evaluation of hazards involved in offshore exploration and development. The conference concluded with a call for bold programs to establish the probability of occurrence and the quantitative importance of these factors and to devise more reliable means of measurement, particularly in place, of the characteristics of the sediment and features involved.

Suggested Citation

1987, Conference on Continental margin mass wasting and Pleistocene sea-level changes, August 13-15, 1980: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 961, iv, 133 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/cir961.

ISSN: 2330-5703 (online)

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Conference on Continental margin mass wasting and Pleistocene sea-level changes, August 13-15, 1980
Series title Circular
Series number 961
DOI 10.3133/cir961
Year Published 1987
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description iv, 133 p.
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