Overview

Sediment gravity flows and slumps of glacimarine sediments have been documented in a variety of modern geographic locations and environmental settings. They are also widely recognized or inferred from seismic and core data collected from previously glaciated fjords, continental shelves, and adjacent continental slopes. This overview summarizes the key environmental and sedimentological aspects of sediment failure and the following examples presented in this atlas are a representative sample of the wonderful variety of glacimarine environments in which debris flow and slumps occur.