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LYKOUSIS, V., SAKELLARIOU, D. & LOCAT, J. (eds) 2007. Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Series, Volume 27. xi + 424 pp. + CD-ROM.

Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag. Price Euros 169.95, SFr 296.00, US $229.00, £130.50 (hard covers). ISBN 9781 4020 6511 8.

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Considering its substantial price, this is a remarkably plain-looking volume. At 23 x 15 cm and a thickness of less than a couple of centimetres it is smallish and uses no colour. A DVD in the back pocket provides some colour illustrations together with larger versions of all the text-figures, which is just as well as a number of those in the book are decidedly spidery and on the margins of legibility.

The book is a collection of 43 papers derived from the Third International Symposium on Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, held in Santorini in 2007. The miscellany of topics and standards is typical of conference volumes, though this does serve to illustrate the . . . [Full Text of this Article]