Interactions between along-slope bottom currents and down-slope turbidity flows can create
a myriad of features and deposits. Despite numerous efforts to differentiate contourites from …

Process-product studies have been central to the development of process sedimentology
over the past few decades, with the ability to first measure flows, and then examine the …

Volcanic eruptions on land create hot and fast pyroclastic density currents, triggering
tsunamis or surges that travel over water where they reach the ocean. However, no field …

Seafloor sediment flows (turbidity currents) are among the volumetrically most important yet
least documented sediment transport processes on Earth. A scarcity of direct observations …

Until recently, despite being one of the most important sediment transport phenomena on
Earth, few direct measurements of turbidity currents existed. Consequently, their structure …

Turbidity currents transport prodigious volumes of sediment to the deep sea. But there are
very few direct measurements from oceanic turbidity currents, ensuring they are poorly …

Changes in sediment supply and caliber during the last∼ 130 ka have resulted in a complex
architectural evolution of the Y channel system on the western Niger Delta slope. This …

Submarine fans, supplied primarily by turbidity currents, constitute the largest sediment
accumulations on Earth. Generally accepted models of turbidity current behavior imply they …

Submarine fans are complex morphological features that develop on the continental slope,
rise and abyssal plain, normally at the mouths of submarine canyons. They are constructed …

A detailed field investigation of a saline gravity current in the southwest Black Sea has
enabled the first complete analysis of three-dimensional flow structure and dynamics of a …