Search Results - "Bornhold, B. D."

The Grand Banks landslide-generated tsunami of November 18, 1929: preliminary analysis and numerical modeling by Fine, I.V., Rabinovich, A.B., Bornhold, B.D., Thomson, R.E., Kulikov, E.A.

“…On November 18, 1929, a M=7.2 earthquake occurred at the southern edge of the Grand Banks, 280 km south of Newfoundland. The earthquake triggered a large…”
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Structure, stability, and tsunami hazard associated with a rock slope in Knight Inlet, British Columbia by van Zeyl, D. P, Stead, D, Sturzenegger, M, Bornhold, B. D, Clague, J. J

“…Rockfalls and rockslides during the past 12 000 years have deposited bouldery debris cones on the seafloor beneath massive rock slopes throughout the inner…”
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Record of large, Late Pleistocene outburst floods preserved in Saanich Inlet sediments, Vancouver Island, Canada by Blais-Stevens, A., Clague, J.J., Mathewes, R.W., Hebda, R.J., Bornhold, B.D.

“…Two anomalous, gray, silty clay beds are present in ODP cores collected from Saanich Inlet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The beds, which date to…”
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Overview of Late Quaternary stratigraphy in Saanich Inlet, British Columbia: results of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 169S by Blais-Stevens, A, Bornhold, B.D, Kemp, A.E.S, Dean, J.M, Vaan, A.A

“…Continuous coring in Saanich Inlet (Ocean Drilling Program, ODP Leg 169S), British Columbia, Canada, yielded a detailed record of Late Quaternary climate,…”
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Numerical Modelling of Tsunamis Generated by Hypothetical Landslides in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia by Rabinovich, AB, Thomson, R E, Bornhold, B D, Fine, I V, Kulikov, E A

“…--A modified and corrected version of the viscous slide model of Jiang and LeBlond (1994) is used to assess the tsunami risk associated with hypothetical…”
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Storm wave reactivation of a submarine landslide by Prior, D. B, Suhayda, J. N, Lu, N.-Z, Bornhold, B. D, Keller, G. H, Wiseman, W. J, Wright, L. D, Yang, Z.-S

“…Using bottom-deployed pressure sensors, tiltmeters and accelerometers, data was collected on sea-floor landslide reactivation involving sediment collapse…”
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Marine dispersal and deposition of Yellow River silts by gravity-driven underflows by Wright, L. D, Wiseman, W. J, Bornhold, B. D, Prior, D. B, Suhayda, J. N, Keller, G. H, Yang, Z.-S, Fan, Y. B

“…Field measurements of the processes of dispersion of concentrated suspended silts over the active delta front of the Yellow River in China show that…”
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The landslide-generated tsunami of November 3, 1994 in Skagway Harbor, Alaska: A case study by Rabinovich, Alexander B., Thomson, Richard E., Kulikov, Evgueni A., Bornhold, Brian D., Fine, Isaac V.

“…We examine the origin and behavior of the catastrophic tsunami that impacted Skagway Harbor at the head of Taiya Inlet, Alaska, on November 3, 1994…”
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Ice-rafted debris in the North Pacific and correlation to North Atlantic climatic events by Hewitt, Antony T., McDonald, Darcy, Bornhold, Brian D.

“…A high‐resolution record of the flux of ice‐rafted debris in deep‐sea cores from the Northeast Pacific indicates that the major interstadials that punctuated…”
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Turbidity Current Activity in a British Columbia Fjord by Prior, David B., Bornhold, Brian D., Wiseman, William J., Lowe, Donald R.

“…A year-long monitoring program within an elongated channel-fan system in Bute Inlet of British Columbia, Canada, detected active sand-transporting turbidity…”
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Depositional Characteristics of a Submarine Debris Flow by Prior, D. B., Bornhold, B. D., Johns, M. W.

“…An example of a recently active delta-front fjord landslide has been extensively studied using side-scan sonar, subbottom profiler, piston coring, and…”
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Sedimentary framework of the modern Huanghe (Yellow River) delta by Bornhold, B. D., Yang, Z. -S., Keller, G. H., Prior, D. B., Wiseman, W. J., Wang, Q., Wright, L. D., Xu, W. D., Zhuang, Z. Y.

“…The geometry, stratigraphy, and structure of recently deposited Huanghe (Yellow River) Delta sediments were examined by high resolution subbottom profiles and…”
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Sediment thixotropy and submarine mass movement, Huanghe Delta, China by LU, N. Z, SUHAYDA, J. N, PRIOR, D. B, BORNHOLD, B. D, KELLER, G. H, WISEMAN, W. J, WRIGHT, L. D, YANG, Z. S

“…Laboratory analysis of clayey silt from the offshore Huanghe Delta, Shandong Prov., People's Republic of China, reveals thixotropic behavior. Fall cone tests…”
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Hyperpycnal plumes and plume fronts over the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta front by Wright, L. D., Yang, Z. -S., Bornhold, B. D., Keller, G. H., Prior, D. B., Wiseman, W. J.

“…The Huanghe (Yellow River) discharges extremely high suspended sediment concentrations (25 to 220 g/I) which favor sustained hyperpycnal plumes (underflows)…”
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NEPTUNE Canada Regional Cabled Observatory: Science Plan by Best, M.M.R., Bornhold, B.D., Juniper, S.K., Barnes, C.R.

“…Starting in 2007, NEPTUNE Canada will install an 800 km long regional cabled ocean observatory across the northern Juan de Fuca Plate. Across the network, high…”
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Sediment blocks in the sea floor in British Columbia fjords by BORNHOLD, B. D, PRIOR, D. B

“…In the deepest parts of Bute and Knight inlets, British Columbia, unusual blocky mounds of sediment rise abruptly from the otherwise smooth sea floor. The…”
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Sediment transport on subaqueous fan delta slopes, Britannia Beach, British Columbia by PRIOR, D. B, BORNHOLD, B. D

“…A high-resolution acoustic survey over a fjord side fan delta revealed distinctive bottom features resulting from slope instability processes. Delta-front…”
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The subaqueous delta of the modern Huanghe (Yellow River) by Prior, D. B., Yang, Z. -S., Bornhold, B. D., Keller, G. H., Lin, Z. H., Wiseman, W. J., Wright, L. D., Lin, T. C.

“…The subaqueous delta of the Huanghe (Yellow River) has been studied using high-resolution acoustic systems. There are many subtle variations in sea floor…”
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High Frequency Turbidity Currents in British Columbia Fjords by Bornhold, Brian D., Ren, Ping, Prior, David B.

“…The frequency of turbidity currents in Bute Inlet and Knight Inlet (British Columbia, Canada) was monitored. A prototype instrument (turbidity event detector)…”
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Suspended sediment advection by tidal currents off the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta by Wiseman, W. J., Fan, Y. -B., Bornhold, B. D., Keller, G. H., Su, Z. -Q., Prior, D. B., Yu, Z. -X., Wright, L. D., Wang, F. -Q., Qian, Q. -Y.

“…Studies to date indirectly indicate that only a small percentage of the sediment discharged by the Huanghe (Yellow River) is presently transported from the…”
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