Christian Berndt, Sebastian Krastel

Submarine landslide deposits are an important constituent of sediment basin fill as they are ubiquitous and can mobilize large amounts of slope material to deposit it further downslope. Studying these deposits and their internal deformation is crucial for understanding their potential as a geohazard, e.g. by directly destroying seafloor installation or by generating large tsunamis. Within the workshop we like to bring together field geologists studying outcrops of landslides, geophysicists that image and measure landslide deposits, and numerical modelers to bridge the gap between field observations and the physical understanding of the processes involved in mass transport. Depending on the participants the workshop will address some of the following topics:

 
• Parameter spaces for numerical models: what are the key parameters?
 
• Challenges in seismic imaging of chaotic material: survey planning lessons from the first 3D seismic study of a volcanic landslide deposit off Montserrat
 
• Distinguishing debris avalanches, debris flows, slumps and pyroclastic flows. To what extent are we looking at a continuum?