01965nas a2200349   4500000000100000008004100001260003100042653003600073100001700109700002300126700002300149700001800172700001600190700001800206700001300224700001600237700001200253700001700265700001700282700001600299700002300315700001800338700002300356700001300379700001800392245010100410856005100511300001200562490000700574520101200581020002201593       2010                            d  bSpringer-VerlagaDordrecht10aEarth and Environmental Science1 aDavid Mosher1 aLorena Moscardelli1 aChristopher Baxter1 aRoger Urgeles1 aCraig Shipp1 aJason Chaytor1 aHoma Lee1 aD.G. Masson1 aR. Wynn1 aP.J. Talling1 aDavid Mosher1 aCraig Shipp1 aLorena Moscardelli1 aJason Chaytor1 aChristopher Baxter1 aHoma Lee1 aRoger Urgeles00aLarge Landslides on Passive Continental Margins: Processes, Hypotheses and Outstanding Questions  uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3071-9_13  a153-1650 v283 aThe volume, area affected, and runout of submarine landslides can exceed those of terrestrial events by two orders of magnitude. The Storegga Slide off Norway affected an area the size of Scotland and moved enough sediment to bury the entire country to a depth of 80 m. Modern geophysics provides a clear picture of large landslides and what their source and depositional areas look like. From this, we can deduce the processes that operated during downslope transport. However, our understanding of many aspects of landslide processes is based on hypotheses that are difficult to test. Elevated pore pressures are essential for landslide initiation on low continental margin slopes, yet understanding of how high pressures are generated or how fluid migration affects slope stability is limited. Sediments may be pre-conditioned for failure by the processes that originally deposited them, e.g., through creation of weak layers, but the processes and parameters that might control this are largely unknown.  a978-90-481-3071-9