Ecological role of submarine canyons and need for canyon conservation: a review

U Fernandez-Arcaya, E Ramirez-Llodra… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Submarine canyons are major geomorphic features of continental margins around the world.
Several recent multidisciplinary projects focused on the study of canyons have considerably …

Deep-water depositional systems supplied by shelf-incising submarine canyons: Recognition and significance in the geologic record

WL Fisher, WE Galloway, RJ Steel, C Olariu… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
It is well established that sedimentary margins grow by sediments bypassing through shelf-
and slope-incising canyons onto the basin floor and by sediments being deposited …

Sediment transfer and deposition in slope channels: Deciphering the record of enigmatic deep-sea processes from outcrop

SM Hubbard, JA Covault, A Fildani… - Bulletin, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The processes within deep-sea sediment-routing systems are difficult to directly monitor.
Therefore, we rely on other means to decipher the sequence and relative magnitude of the …

Upper Miocene to Quaternary unidirectionally migrating deep-water channels in the Pearl River mouth Basin, northern South China Sea

C Gong, Y Wang, W Zhu, W Li, Q Xu - AAPG bulletin, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A series of short and steep unidirectionally migrating deep-water channels, which are
typically without levees and migrate progressively northeastward, are identified in the …

[HTML][HTML] 海底麻坑的特征, 分类与成因机制

沈奥, 孙启良, 蔡砥柱, 邢子浩 - 地质科技通报, 2023 - dzkjqb.cug.edu.cn
海底麻坑是由超压流体溢出海底时侵蚀海底沉积物所形成的一种负地貌, 其广泛分布于各种水下
构造环境(如大陆边缘盆地和增生楔等). 综合近年有关海底麻坑的研究成果, 依据麻坑形状, 直径 …

The Central Submarine Canyon in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northwestern South China Sea: architecture, sequence stratigraphy, and depositional processes

C Gong, Y Wang, W Zhu, W Li, Q Xu, J Zhang - Marine and petroleum …, 2011 - Elsevier
Submarine canyons have been the subject of intense studies in recent years because of
their close link to deepwater systems. The Central Canyon is a large unusual submarine …

Architecture and controlling factors of canyon fills on the shelf margin in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea

Y He, X Xie, BC Kneller, Z Wang, X Li - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
Most submarine canyons are documented as erosive features that cut deeply into the shelf
margin, and are considered as important conduits for the transfer of sediment to the lower …

Architecture, evolution history and controlling factors of the Baiyun submarine canyon system from the middle Miocene to Quaternary in the Pearl River Mouth Basin …

W Zhou, Y Wang, X Gao, W Zhu, Q Xu, S Xu… - Marine and petroleum …, 2015 - Elsevier
Since the middle Miocene, a series of northeastward unidirectionally migrating canyons
(UMCs) have developed in the Baiyun Sag, Pearl River Mouth Basin. Seven closely spaced …

Rapid adjustment of submarine channel architecture to changes in sediment supply

ZR Jobe, Z Sylvester, AO Parker… - Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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 …

Seismic characteristics and processes of the Plio-Quaternary unidirectionally migrating channels and contourites in the northern slope of the South China Sea

H Li, Y Wang, W Zhu, Q Xu, Y He, W Tang… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Plio-Quaternary unidirectionally migrating channels (UMCs) and contourites in the
northern slope of the South China Sea were investigated in this paper using seismic data …