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Soil Mechanics and Slope Stability of the Ursa Basin, Northern Gulf of Mexico. Hilary Elizabeth Strong MS Candidate Institute for Geophysics The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78758. Presentation Outline. Submarine Landslides: An Introduction Geology of the Ursa Basin
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Soil Mechanics and Slope Stability of the Ursa Basin,Northern Gulf of Mexico Hilary Elizabeth Strong MS Candidate Institute for Geophysics The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78758
Presentation Outline • Submarine Landslides: An Introduction • Geology of the Ursa Basin • Mechanics of Slope Failure • Soil Strength Testing • Initial Results • The Problem at Ursa • A Recent Slide in the Gulf of Mexico
Submarine Landslides http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/ees123/clathrate199.htm
Study Area: Ursa Basin Sawyer et al 2007
Current conditions are safe! So how do we explain MTD’s? 1) Conditions in the past different 2) Earthquakes triggered failure
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