Abstract. The research objective was to identify seabed areas where hazardous exogenous geological processes (EGPs) are possible. First of all, this included the identification of landforms with a significant steepness of the slopes, provoking underwater landslides and rock sloughing, and study of the sediment thickness. The following research methods were used: high-resolution seismic survey, side-scan sonar profiling, sediment sampling, underwater video-observation. The main forms of bottom relief, characterized by the possibility of manifestation of EGPs, are moraine and rocky ridges, underwater canyons. The height differences for some structures range from 30 to 105 meters, slope angles from 4° to 20°, on the steepest slopes reaching 42°. On a significant part of the underwater slopes within the study area, the traces of gravitational movement of bottom sediments were recorded. On steep slopes with dip angles of more than 15°, composed of bedrock outcrops, rock sloughing was observed.

Keywords: hazardous underwater exogenous geological processes, complex morphosculptural element, Teriberka, Barents Sea