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1 Geological Survey of Canada-Atlantic, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada B2Y 4A2; dmosher{at}nrcan.gc.ca
2 Geological Survey of Canada-Atlantic, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada B2Y 4A2
3 Geological Survey of Canada-Atlantic, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada B2Y 4A2
4 Geological Survey of Canada-Atlantic, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada B2Y 4A2
David Mosher is a marine research geophysicist with the Geological Survey of Canada. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in 1993. His research interests include marine geohazard investigations, with particular emphasis on neotectonics and slope stability. He has worked on Canada's east and west coasts, the Arctic, and the equatorial Atlantic and Pacific. He was recently co-chief scientist on Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 207.David Piper is a marine research geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada. He completed his Ph.D. in sedimentary geology at Cambridge University in 1969. He has a long-standing interest in continental margin stratigraphy and sedimentation and is presently assigned to work on geohazards on the eastern Canadian margin. He has been senior scientist on more than 30 research cruises, including ODP Leg 155.
Calvin Campbell is a marine geoscientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, specializing in geohazard evaluation, digital geological interpretation, and geographic information systems, with a particular emphasis on deep-water environments. He graduated in 1999 with a B.Sc. degree in geology and environmental studies from St. Mary's University and conducted an honors thesis under the guidance of David Piper on Holocene storm signature in marine sediment cores.
Kimberley A. Jenner was employed as a sedimentologist with Gulf Canada Resources Incorporated from 1982 to 1986 before graduating with an M.Sc. degree from Dalhousie University in marine sedimentology in 1989. Kimberley has worked as a sedimentologist with Natural Resources Canada since 1990. Her research interests include arctic deltas, arctic gas hydrate host strata, and shallow mass-transport deposits in deep-water canyons.
The central Scotian Slope demonstrates a complex seafloor morphology superimposed on a regional gradient of 2–4° across the margin. The west-central Scotian Slope is characterized by a relatively smooth seafloor, but with numerous 10–80-m (33–260-ft)-high escarpments representing slide failure scars. In the east, the seafloor is highly dissected by canyons. Throughout the region are scars and deposits of sediment mass failures, including retrogressive headwalls, rotational slumps, slides, creep, debris-flow deposits, and turbidites.
The complexity of failure styles and triggering mechanisms identified underscores the need for comprehensive site assessments for situating seabed facilities. Critical factors that need to be taken into account include local terrain analysis and shallow subbottom stratigraphy. Slope-stability analysis has shown the surface sediment to be statically stable, except on steep escarpments and canyon walls. There is evidence, however, of sediment failures that approximately correlate to glacial advances (25–12, 
75, and 130 ka), providing some clue as to potential triggering mechanisms. Sparse, passive-margin, tectonic earthquakes, however, are the likely cause for large-scale, regionally correlated failures and failure escarpments.
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