Marine Geohazards and Seabed Stability
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Geological Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2026 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine engineering geology; wave-seabed interactions; submarine sediment gravity flows; seafloor in situ test and observation
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Interests: porous flow; offshore geotechnics; ocean/coastal engineering; groundwater; artificial neural network and offshore wind energy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid expansion of offshore energy, submarine infrastructure, deep-sea resource development, and coastal engineering, marine geohazards and seabed stability have become increasingly important for ocean safety and sustainable development. Submarine landslides, seabed liquefaction, shallow gas, active faults, scour, erosion, and sediment instability may pose risks to pipelines, foundations, cables, offshore platforms, and coastal communities. These hazards are controlled by interactions among geological conditions, sediment properties, hydrodynamic processes, geotechnical behaviour, and seismic loading. Advances in seabed observation, geophysical imaging, marine geotechnical testing, numerical modelling, and data-driven analysis provide new opportunities to understand, predict, and mitigate these risks.
This Special Issue aims to present recent advances related to marine geohazards and seabed stability. Contributions addressing geological, geotechnical, geophysical, hydrodynamic, and seismic aspects of seabed instability are welcome.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Marine geohazards;
- Seabed stability;
- Submarine landslides;
- Seabed liquefaction;
- Marine geotechnics;
- Offshore earthquakes;
- Shallow gas;
- Scour and erosion;
- Offshore infrastructure;
- Risk assessment.
Prof. Dr. Xiaolei Liu
Prof. Dr. Dong-Sheng Jeng
Dr. Hong Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine geohazards
- seabed stability
- submarine landslides
- seabed liquefaction
- offshore infrastructure
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