Submarine landslides in active margin environments [Elektronische Ressource] : slope stability vs. neotectonic activity on the northeastern margin of Crete, eastern Mediterranean / by Frank Strozyk

Submarine landslides in active margin environments - Slope stability vs. neotectonic activity on the northeastern margin of Crete, eastern Mediterranean Dissertation Zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Naturwissenschaften am Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen Submitted for the doctoral degree in natural sciences at the Faculty of Geosciences of Bremen University By Frank Strozyk Bremen, 2009 2Abstract Abstract This thesis is a study of the processes and factors that may govern submarine slope destabilization and mass movement as well as a slope’s resistance to failure in submarine active margin environments. Prior studies on this topic in active margin settings (e.g., western North America) have shown that their slopes can be peculiar, poorly understood systems with a low recurrence of slope collapse despite the ‘paradigm’ of extensive, diffuse, and widespread mass movement generally associated with the tectonic activity. The focus of this study is the active margin present along the northeast margin of Crete in the Hellenic subduction zone of the eastern Mediterranean.