Imagine you are yodeling whilst snowshoeing in a majestic mountain range. All of a sudden you hear a rumble. You look up to see a white wall of snow heading towards you. You, unfortunately, are about ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: Benthic plastic litter is a main source of pollutants in oceans, but how it disperses is largely unknown. This study by Guangfa Zhong and Xiaotong Peng, published today in Geology ...

The first measurements of changes in the internal velocity structure within a turbidity current as it progressed down canyon. The first quantitative data showing that, in early stages of some events, ...

Scientists are reporting what they say is the longest sediment avalanche yet measured in action. It occurred underwater off West Africa, in a deep canyon leading away from the mouth of the Congo River ...

Deployment of ocean-floor mooring from research vessel's back deck. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 04 Oct. 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.

I post about turbidites a lot on this blog. I have never included a link to an online explanation of them because I am simply not satisfied with them. I should create a post of my own to do this but..

Jiaolong, China's manned submersible, is about to dive into the South China Sea, May 6, 2017. Jiaolong explored submarine turbidity currents in the South China Sea on Saturday. Three crew members in ...

The mechanism by which turbidity currents propagate and cause sedimentation in closed-end channels such as pier slips and residential canals was studied in laboratory experiments. Two similar flumes ...