Identification of Weak Layers and Their Role for the Stability of Slopes at Finneidfjord, Northern Norway

• Main Authors: L'Heureux, J-S., Longva, O., Steiner, A., Hansen, L., Vardy, Mark E., Vanneste, M., Haflidason, H., Brendryen, J., Kvalstad, T.J., Forsberg, C.F., Chand, S., Kopf, A.
• Other Authors: Yamada, Y., Kawamura, K., Ikehara, K., Ogawa, Y., Urgeles, R., Mosher, D., Chaytor, J., Strasser, M.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2012
• Subjects: Finneidfjord; Norway; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/301040/

The 1996 Finneidfjord landslide, which took four human lives in northern Norway, initiated along a weak layer in the fjord-marine sediments before developing retrogressively across the shoreline. The integration of results from sediment cores, free-fall cone penetrometer tests and high-resolution 3D...