Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions

MA Clare, IA Yeo, S Watson, R Wysoczanski… - Science, 2023 - science.org
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 …

Dinocyst assemblages and water surface conditions in the Sea of Marmara during MIS 6 and 5 from two long cores

SAG Leroy, P Henry, F Marret, C Paillès, L Licari… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sea of Marmara is the connection between the vast Black Sea-Caspian Sea
basin (Pontocaspian) and the Global Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea. Its water levels and …

[HTML][HTML] 150 Years (1872–2022) of research on deep–water processes, deposits, settings, triggers, and deformation: A difficult domain of progress, dichotomy …

G Shanmugam - Journal of Palaeogeography, 2022 - Elsevier
In capturing a snapshot of 150 years (1872–2022) of research on deep–water processes,
deposits, settings, triggers, and deformation, the following 22 topics are selected:(1) HMS …

Extreme erosion and bulking in a giant submarine gravity flow

C Böttner, CJ Stevenson, R Englert, M Schönke… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Sediment gravity flows are ubiquitous agents of transport, erosion, and deposition across
Earth's surface, including terrestrial debris flows, snow avalanches, and submarine turbidity …

Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea

M Liu, Z Wang, K Yu, J Xu - Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Sediment gravity flows are the most direct and efficient transport mechanisms for moving
terrestrial sediments into deep oceans. Scarcity of firsthand measurements, however, has …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting turbidity current activity offshore from meltwater-fed river deltas

LP Bailey, MA Clare, EL Pope, ID Haigh… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantification of the controls on turbidity current recurrence is required to better constrain
land to sea fluxes of sediment, carbon and pollutants, and design resilient infrastructure that …

Globally significant mass of terrestrial organic carbon efficiently transported by canyon-flushing turbidity currents

ML Baker, S Hage, PJ Talling, S Acikalin… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Burial of organic carbon in marine sediments is a long-term sink of atmospheric CO2, and
submarine turbidity currents are volumetrically the most important sediment transport …

Review of the missing link between field and modeled submarine debris flows: Scale effects of physical modeling

CE Choi, J Yu, J Zhang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Submarine debris flows occur under the cloak of the sea and are giants among other types
of landslides on planet Earth. They pose a significant threat to sustainable offshore …

Stratigraphic expression of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum climate event during long-lived transient uplift—An example from a shallow to deep-marine …

TO Sømme, SI Huwe, OJ Martinsen… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Seismic geomorphology and stratigraphic analysis can reveal how source-to-sink systems
dynamically respond to climatic and tectonic forcing. This study uses seismic reflection data …

Highstand sublacustrine fans: The role of a sudden increase in sediment supply

T Yang, Y Cao, H Liu - Basin Research, 2023 - earthdoc.org
Contrary to widely used traditional sequence‐stratigraphic models, highstand sublacustrine
fans developed in the deep‐water environment in the middle of the third member of the …