turbidity current

Turbidity currents can reach speeds up to half the speed of sound.

Some of the largest antidunes on Earth are formed by turbidity currents.

The material is then reworked by turbidity currents to achieve their current form.

Undersea landslides - or turbidity currents - were another cause.

A: Sands and any larger grains the turbidity current was carrying at the time of deposition.

For example, turbidity currents on the seafloor may carry material thousands of kilometres.

There is one additional effect of turbidity currents: upwelling.

Aeolian turbidity currents are better known as dust storms.

Dropstones can also be deposited through the action of strong ocean-floor turbidity currents.

Turbidity currents are most commonly triggered by tectonic disturbances of the sea floor.

Then turbidity currents rush down the canyon like giant undersea avalanches.

The sediments were deposited as submarine landslides and turbidity currents.

Abyssal (or submarine) fans are formed from turbidity currents.

The major mechanism of canyon erosion is now thought to be turbidity currents and underwater landslides.

With the increase in computational power, depth-resolved models have become a powerful tool to study gravity and turbidity currents.

These levees are formed by the overspilling and flow stripping of turbidity currents.

Geologists now attribute its formation to submarine avalanches or strong turbidity currents.

The generator complex was so smashed up by the quake and turbidity currents that they didn't bother with much of a fail-analysis.

The transport and deposition of the sediments in narrow alpine reservoirs is often caused by turbidity currents.

Now geologists think greywacke is formed by submarine avalanches or strong turbidity currents.

Flume studies have show that they can also occur in submarine environments beneath density flows like turbidity currents.

These breccias are of marine origin and are formed by near-bottom turbidity currents.

Cables can be broken by fishing trawlers, anchors, earthquakes, turbidity currents and even shark bites.

Sediment transport is controlled by submarine landslides, debris flows, turbidity currents, and contourites.

Submarine landslides are turbidity currents and consist of water saturated sediments flowing downslope.