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Integrated geophysical, sedimentological and geotechnical investigation of submarine landslides in the Gulf of Lions (Western Mediterranean)

View ORCID ProfileShray Badhani, View ORCID ProfileAntonio Cattaneo, View ORCID ProfileStefano Collico, View ORCID ProfileRoger Urgeles, View ORCID ProfileBernard Dennielou, View ORCID ProfileEstelle Leroux, View ORCID ProfileFlorent Colin, View ORCID ProfileSebastien Garziglia, View ORCID ProfileMarina Rabineau and View ORCID ProfileLaurence Droz
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 359-376, 14 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-175
Shray Badhani
1IFREMER, Unité de Recherche Géosciences Marines, Centre de Bretagne, 1625 Route de Sainte-Anne, 29280 Plouzané, France
2Université de Brest, CNRS, Université Bretagne-Sud, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, UMR6538 – IUEM, rue Dumont d'Urville, F-29280 Plouzané, France
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Roger Urgeles
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Florent Colin
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2Université de Brest, CNRS, Université Bretagne-Sud, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, UMR6538 – IUEM, rue Dumont d'Urville, F-29280 Plouzané, France
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The Gulf of Lions presents recurring mass-transport deposits (MTDs) within the Plio-Quaternary sediments, suggesting a long history of mass movements. The two large, surficial MTDs are located on the eastern and western levee of the Rhone canyon over an area exceeding 6000 km2 and volumes exceeding 100 km3. Both MTDs were emplaced 21 ka ago (peak of the Last Glacial Maximum), suggesting a common trigger. Here, we present a multidisciplinary high-resolution geophysical, sedimentological and in-situ geotechnical study of the source and deposit areas of both MTDs to characterize distinct expressions of sediment deformation as well as their spatial and chronological distributions. We show the internal structure of mass movements and resulting MTDs with unprecedented details that were previously represented in the conventional seismic data as transparent and chaotic facies. The combination of multidisciplinary approaches shows new insights into the nature of basal surfaces of the slope failures. In particular, we show that the basal surfaces of the failures consist of clay-rich material contrasting with the overlying turbiditic deposits, suggesting that a strong lithological heterogeneity exists within the strata. We suggest that this change in lithology between clay-rich sediments and turbiditic sequences most likely controls the localization of weak layers and landslide basal surfaces.

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Integrated geophysical, sedimentological and geotechnical investigation of submarine landslides in the Gulf of Lions (Western Mediterranean)

Shray Badhani, Antonio Cattaneo, Stefano Collico, Roger Urgeles, Bernard Dennielou, Estelle Leroux, Florent Colin, Sebastien Garziglia, Marina Rabineau and Laurence Droz
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 359-376, 14 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-175
Shray Badhani
1IFREMER, Unité de Recherche Géosciences Marines, Centre de Bretagne, 1625 Route de Sainte-Anne, 29280 Plouzané, France
2Université de Brest, CNRS, Université Bretagne-Sud, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, UMR6538 – IUEM, rue Dumont d'Urville, F-29280 Plouzané, France
Roles: [Conceptualization (Lead)], [Data curation (Lead)], [Formal analysis (Lead)], [Investigation (Lead)], [Visualization (Lead)], [Writing - Original Draft (Lead)], [Writing - Review & Editing (Lead)]
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1IFREMER, Unité de Recherche Géosciences Marines, Centre de Bretagne, 1625 Route de Sainte-Anne, 29280 Plouzané, France
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Stefano Collico
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Roger Urgeles
4Institut de Ciències del Mar, Pg. Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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Bernard Dennielou
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Estelle Leroux
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Florent Colin
1IFREMER, Unité de Recherche Géosciences Marines, Centre de Bretagne, 1625 Route de Sainte-Anne, 29280 Plouzané, France
2Université de Brest, CNRS, Université Bretagne-Sud, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, UMR6538 – IUEM, rue Dumont d'Urville, F-29280 Plouzané, France
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Sebastien Garziglia
1IFREMER, Unité de Recherche Géosciences Marines, Centre de Bretagne, 1625 Route de Sainte-Anne, 29280 Plouzané, France
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Marina Rabineau
2Université de Brest, CNRS, Université Bretagne-Sud, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, UMR6538 – IUEM, rue Dumont d'Urville, F-29280 Plouzané, France
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Laurence Droz
2Université de Brest, CNRS, Université Bretagne-Sud, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, UMR6538 – IUEM, rue Dumont d'Urville, F-29280 Plouzané, France
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Shray Badhani, Antonio Cattaneo, Stefano Collico, Roger Urgeles, Bernard Dennielou, Estelle Leroux, Florent Colin, Sebastien Garziglia, Marina Rabineau and Laurence Droz
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 359-376, 14 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-175
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