Use of high-frequency (3.5–12 kHz) echograms in the study of near-bottom sedimentation processes in the deep-sea: a review

JE Damuth - Marine Geology, 1980 - Elsevier
During the past 15 years in creasing numbers of studies have demonstrated that continuous
echograms recorded on high-frequency (3.5–12 kHz) precision depth recorders aboard …

Contourites: their recognition in modern and ancient sediments

DAV Stow, JPB Lovell - Earth-Science Reviews, 1979 - Elsevier
We suggest that publication of evidence that the continental rise of the western North Atlantic
has been shaped by bottom currents flowing parallel to bathymetric contours (Heezen …

Classification and characterisation of deep-water sediment waves

RB Wynn, DAV Stow - Marine Geology, 2002 - Elsevier
Deep-water sediment waves can be classified using a combination of grain size and wave-
forming process, although in some cases one or other of these criteria may be …

Bottom-current-controlled sedimentation: a synthesis of the contourite problem

JC Faugères, DAV Stow - Sedimentary Geology, 1993 - Elsevier
An overview of the main items concerning deep bottom-current-controlled deposits is
presented. These include: the definition of contourites, their processes of deposition and …

Echo character of the east Brazilian continental margin and its relationship to sedimentary processes

JE Damuth, DE Hayes - Marine Geology, 1977 - Elsevier
The nature and regional distributions of various types of bottom echoes recorded on 3.5-kHz
echograms from the East Brazilian continental margin (8–30° S) provide valuable …

A lee wave model for deep-sea mudwave activity

RD Flood - Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research …, 1988 - Elsevier
Mudwaves, with wavelengths up to 6 km and heigths up to 100 m, are commonly found in
the deep sea where steady, sediment-laden currents are present; their internal structure …

Echo character of the Norwegian—Greenland Sea: relationship to Quaternary sedimentation

JE Damuth - Marine Geology, 1978 - Elsevier
Ten discrete types of bottom echoes are recorded and mapped in the Norwegian—
Greenland Sea using 3.5-kHz echograms; eight of these are similar to echo types mapped …

Classification of sedimentary furrows and a model for furrow initiation and evolution

RD Flood - Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1983 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sedimentary furrows are longitudinal bed forms which form in fine-grained, cohesive
sediments of the deep-sea floor as well as in similar sediments in estuaries and in large …

Migrating sediment waves created by turbidity currents in the northern South China Basin

JE Damuth - Geology, 1979 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract A large (∼ 25,000 km2) field of migrating sediment waves on the gently dip**
seaward wall of the Manila Trench in the northern South China Basin parallels the trench …

Dense shelf water cascades and sedimentary furrow formation in the Cap de Creus Canyon, northwestern Mediterranean Sea

P Puig, A Palanques, DL Orange, G Lastras… - Continental Shelf …, 2008 - Elsevier
To investigate the processes by which sediment is transported through a submarine canyon
incised in a continental margin affected by recurrent dense shelf water cascading events …