“…Landslides have been reported all around the globe along continental slopes removed from submarine canyon-fan systems. Included are slopes off southern California (Buffington & Moore, 1962;Haner & Gorsline, 1978;Field & Clarke, 1979;Nardin et al, 1979a,b;Ploessel et al, 1979;Field & Edwards, 1980;Field & Richmond, 1980;Hein & Gorsline, 1981;Thornton, 1986), central and northern California Richmond and Burdick, 1981), Alaska (Marlow et al, 1970;Hampton & Bouma, 1977;Carlson et al, 1980), Gulf of Mexico (Lehner, 1969;Woodbury, 1977;Booth & Garrison, 1978;Booth, 1979), and Atlantic coast (Embley & Jacobi, 1977;McGregor, 1977;Knebel & Carson, 1979;McGregor et al, 1979;Malahoff et al, 1980;Cashman & Popenoe, 1985;O'Leary, 1986).…”