Failure and Post-Failure Mechanics of Submarine Landslides

Theoretical contexts for each of the stages associated with underwater landsliding can be postulated with reasonable confidence, although specific constitutive models require additional work. Also still missing is a comprehensive numerical framework for predicting displacement fields from small pre-failure and post-depositional sediment volume changes and distortions to large-scale inertial sediment wasting. A particular promising modeling approach is outlined herein.