Submarine landside in the Bussol Graben: Structural and formation features


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Abstract

Analysis of geophysical data obtained during a study of the insular slope in the central Kuril‒Kamchatka Trench during projects Kuriles-2005 and Kuriles-2006 promoted by the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences revealed a large submarine landslide in this area. The landslide, located at the bottom of the transverse valley confined to the Bussol l Graben, resulted from the failure of the northeastern wall of a graben composed of sedimentary material. It exceeds 35 km3 in size, representing one of the large submarine landslides discovered to date on the slope of the Kuril‒Kamchatka Trench in submarine canyonfan environments.

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B. V. Baranov

Shirshov Institute of Oceanology

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Email: bbaranov@ocean.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997

L. I. Lobkovsky

Shirshov Institute of Oceanology

Email: bbaranov@ocean.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997

K. A. Dozorova

Shirshov Institute of Oceanology

Email: bbaranov@ocean.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997

D. D. Rukavishnikova

Shirshov Institute of Oceanology

Email: bbaranov@ocean.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997

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