Flow behaviour of a giant landslide and debris flow entering Agadir Canyon, NW Africa

Krastel, Sebastian; Wynn, Russell B.; Feldens, Peter; Schürer, Anke; Böttner, Christoph; Stevenson, C.; Cartigny, Matthieu J.B.; Hühnerbach, Veit; Unverricht, Daniel. 2016 Flow behaviour of a giant landslide and debris flow entering Agadir Canyon, NW Africa. In: Lamarche, Geoffroy; Mountjoy, Joshu; Bull, Suzanne; Hubble, Tom; Krastel, Sebastian; Lane, Emily; Micallef, Aaron; Moscardelli, Lorena; Mueller, Christof; Pecher, Ingo; Woelz, Susanne, (eds.) Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences: 7th International Symposium. Cham, Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 145-154, 621pp. (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 41).

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Abstract/Summary

Agadir Canyon is one of the largest submarine canyons in the World, supplying giant submarine sediment gravity flows to the Agadir Basin and the wider Moroccan Turbidite System. While the Moroccan Turbidite System is extremely well investigated, almost no data from the source region, i.e. the Agadir Canyon, are available. New acoustic and sedimentological data of the Agadir Canyon area were collected during RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 32 in autumn 2013. The data show a prominent headwall area around 200 km south of the head of Agadir Canyon. The failure occurred along a pronounced weak layer in a sediment wave field. The slab-type failure rapidly disintegrated and transformed into a debris flow, which entered Agadir Canyon at 2500 m water depth. Interestingly, the debris flow did not disintegrate into a turbidity current when it entered the canyon despite a significant increase in slope angle. Instead, the material was transported as debrite for at least another 200 km down the canyon. It is unlikely that this giant debris flow significantly contributed to the deposits in the wider Moroccan Turbidite System.

Item Type:	Publication - Book Section
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1007/978-3-319-20979-1_14
ISBN:	9783319209784
ISSN:	1878-9897
Additional Keywords:	Submarine landslide; Debris flow; Acoustic imaging; Agadir Canyon
Date made live:	13 Oct 2016 14:52 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514825

Item Type:

Publication - Book Section

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1007/978-3-319-20979-1_14

ISBN:

9783319209784

ISSN:

1878-9897

Additional Keywords:

Submarine landslide; Debris flow; Acoustic imaging; Agadir Canyon

Date made live:

13 Oct 2016 14:52 +0 (UTC)