Abstract:Submarine landslides are a mixture of rock, sediment, and fluids moving downslope due to a slope's initial event of mechanical failure. Submarine landslides play a critical role in shaping the morphology of the seafloor and the transport of sediments from the continental shelf to the continental rise in the southern margin of the Colombian Caribbean. Two fundamental considerations can be highlighted: first, mass transport complexes produced by submarine landslides encompass significant portions of the stratigr… Show more
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