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Diatom ooze: the weak link in submarine landslides?

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Date: 2018-02-13 08:37:43
Blog: The Landslide Blog
URL: https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2018/02/13/diatom-ooze-1/

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A new paper in the journal Geology (Urlaub et al. 2018) proposes that the key factor that allows giant submarine landslides maybe the combination of compressible diatom ooze and a capping layer of low permeability clay

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