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  • ""Front Cover""; ""Ormen Lange �a�? an Integrated Study for Safe Field Development in the Storegga Submarine Slide Area""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Ormen Lange�a�?an integrated study for the safe development of a deep-water gas field within the Storegga Slide Complex, NE Atlantic continental margin; executive summary ""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Present day conditions""; ""3. Geological development""; ""4. Seismicity""; ""5. Slide dynamics and tsunamis""; ""6. Slide triggers""
  • 7. Other factors affecting present slope instability and risk assessment8. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 2. Explaining the Storegga Slide
  • Abstract
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Physiography
  • 3. Bathymetry
  • 4. Stratigraphy
  • 5. Preslide conditions
  • 6. Slide scar morphology
  • 7. Slope destabilisations and slide triggers
  • 8. Slide initiation area
  • 9. Slide process and development
  • 10. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Influence from 'Ocean Weather' on near seabed currents and events at Ormen LangeAbstract
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Current meter observations
  • 3. Major forces and their effects on currents
  • 4. Flow over small scale bottom topograpy
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 4. Large-scale development of the mid-Norwegian margin during the last 3 million years
  • Abstract
  • 1. Introduction and applied methods
  • 2. Geological setting
  • 3. Description of sequences and time thickness maps
  • 4. Interpretation and discussion
  • 5. ConclusionsAcknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 5. The Pleistocene to recent geological developmentof the Ormen Lange area
  • Abstract
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Physiographic setting
  • 3. Ormen Lange Pleistocene stratigraphy
  • 4. Discussion
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 6. Late Cenozoic glacial history and evolution of the Storegga Slide area and adjacent slide flank regions, Norwegian continental margin
  • Abstract
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Physiographic and oceanographic settings
  • ""3. Seismic facies and sediment characteristics""""4. Glacial history""; ""5. Margin evolution""; ""6. Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 7. The glacial North Sea Fan, southern Norwegian Margin: architecture and evolution from the upper continental slope to the deep-sea basin""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Physiographic setting""; ""3. Data and methods""; ""4. The North Sea Fan�a�?seismic stratigraphy""; ""5. Discussion""; ""6. Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""References""; ""Chapter 8. Contourites and their relevance for mass wasting along the Mid-Norwegian Margin""