@article{3d345d0250f145a083305d3dcde35301,
title = "Sedimentological characteristics and seafloor failure offshore SW Taiwan",
keywords = "Pb-210, Seafloor failure, Sediment budget, Sedimentation rate, Submarine canyon",
author = "Su, {Chih Chieh} and Hsu, {Sheng Ting} and Hsu, {Huai Houh} and Lin, {Jing Yi} and Dong, {Jia Jyun}",
note = "Funding Information: Over the past decade, under the support of “FATES Integrated Project” (funded by Ministry of Science and Technology; MOST), “Investigation of Gas Hydrate Resource Potential” (funded by Central Geological Survey; CGS), and “Marine Geology and Seabed Stability Study for the Potential Gashydrate Area Off SW Taiwan” (funded by National Energy Program; NEP), we found that the potential submarine geohazards offshore southwestern Taiwan is related to the aforementioned geological preconditioning factors and triggering mechanisms, including sedimentation rate, under consolidation, slope angle, existence of weak layer, climate change history, earthquake, seafloor gas charging, gas hydrate dissociation, and seepage, etc. In this study, the core analysis (including X-ray radiographs, grain size and 210Pb geochronology) results and chirp sonar images are used to evaluate the seafloor instability offshore southwestern Taiwan. Funding Information: The National Energy Program (NEP), FATES Integrated Project, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), and Central Geological Survey (CGS) of Taiwan, ROC, provided funding for this research. We thank the captains and crew of R/V Ocean Researcher 1 and Ocean Researcher 3 for shipboard assistance, as well as the assistance in the laboratory of Core Laboratory (Dr. P.-S. You, Miss J.-R. Liao, and Miss T.-T. Chen) at the Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, National Applied Research Laboratories. We appreciate the constructive reviews by two anonymous reviewers that greatly improved the manuscript.",
year = "2018",
month = feb,
doi = "10.3319/TAO.2017.06.21.01",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
volume = "29",
pages = "65--76",
journal = "Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences",
issn = "1017-0839",
number = "1",
}