Transport and burial of microplastics in deep-marine sediments by turbidity currents

F Pohl, JT Eggenhuisen, IA Kane… - Environmental science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The threat posed by plastic pollution to marine ecosystems and human health is under
increasing scrutiny. Much of the macro-and microplastic in the ocean ends up on the …

Transport and accumulation of litter in submarine canyons: a geoscience perspective

M Pierdomenico, A Bernhardt… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Marine litter is one of the most pervasive and fast-growing aspects of contamination in the
global ocean, and has been observed in every environmental setting, including the deep …

[HTML][HTML] Daily bathymetric surveys document how stratigraphy is built and its extreme incompleteness in submarine channels

D Vendettuoli, MA Clare, JEH Clarke, A Vellinga… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Turbidity currents are powerful flows of sediment that pose a hazard to critical seafloor
infrastructure and transport globally important amounts of sediment to the deep sea. Due to …

Centimeter-scale lithology and facies prediction in cored wells using machine learning

T Martin, R Meyer, Z Jobe - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Machine-learning algorithms have been used by geoscientists to infer geologic and physical
properties from hydrocarbon exploration and development wells for more than 40 years …

Characterization of the Rapanui mass‐transport deposit and the basal shear zone: Mount Messenger Formation, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

S Cardona, LJ Wood, B Dugan, Z Jobe… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Submarine mass‐transport deposits are important in many ancient and modern basins.
Mass‐transport deposits can play a significant role in exploration as reservoir, seal or source …

The stratigraphic evolution of a submarine channel: linking seafloor dynamics to depositional products

SM Hubbard, ZR Jobe, BW Romans… - Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We investigate the relationship between the cross-sectional geomorphic expression of a
submarine channel as observed on the seafloor and the stratigraphic product of long-lived …

Comparing aggradation, superelevation, and avulsion frequency of submarine and fluvial channels

ZR Jobe, NC Howes, KM Straub, D Cai… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Constraining the avulsion dynamics of rivers and submarine channels is essential for
predicting the distribution of sediment, organic matter, and pollutants in alluvial, deltaic, and …

Reconstructing the sediment concentration of a giant submarine gravity flow

CJ Stevenson, P Feldens, A Georgiopoulou… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Submarine gravity flows are responsible for the largest sediment accumulations on the
planet, but are notoriously difficult to measure in action. Giant flows transport 100s of km3 of …

Quantifying the three‐dimensional stratigraphic expression of cyclic steps by integrating seafloor and deep‐water outcrop observations

RG Englert, SM Hubbard, MJB Cartigny… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Deep‐water deposits are important archives of Earth's history including the occurrence of
powerful flow events and the transfer of large volumes of terrestrial detritus into the world's …

Sedimentary architecture of detached deep‐marine canyons: Examples from the East Coast Basin of New Zealand

AD McArthur, WD McCaffrey - Sedimentology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Submarine canyons are conduits for the distribution of sediment across continental margins.
Although many canyons connect directly with fluvial or marine littoral system feeders …