Submarine canyons are morphological incisions into continental margins that act as major conduits of sediment from shallow-to deep-sea regions. However, the exact mechanisms …
Turbidity currents, and other types of underwater sediment density flow, are arguably the most important flow process for moving sediment across our planet. Direct monitoring …
L Carter, R Gavey, PJ Talling, JT Liu - Oceanography, 2014 - JSTOR
The original discovery of active submarine landslides and turbidity currents in the deep ocean was made in the 1950s through analysis of breaks in transoceanic communications …
A global network of subsea telecommunications cables underpins our daily lives, enabling> 95% of global digital data transfer, $ trillions/day in financial trading, and providing critical …
G Shanmugam - Journal of Palaeogeography, 2016 - Elsevier
During a period of 82 years (1931–2013), 39 genetic terms were introduced for various deposits. Of the 39 terms, only ten are meaningful in understanding the true depositional …
There are many different source-to-sink dispersal systems around the world, and the Gaoping River (GPR)–Gaoping Submarine Canyon (GPSC) provides an example especially …
SC Chen, SK Hsu, Y Wang, SH Chung… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2014 - Elsevier
In order to identify the mud diapirs and mud volcanoes off SW Taiwan, we have examined∼ 1500 km long MCS profiles and related marine geophysical data. Our results show ten quasi …
R Gavey, L Carter, JT Liu, PJ Talling, R Hsu, E Pope… - Marine Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
At least 17 subsea telecommunications cables cross the Gaoping Canyon and Manila Trench system in the Strait of Luzon between Taiwan and the Philippines. There, cable …
Taiwan's unique setting allows it to release disproportionately large quantities of fluvial sediment into diverse dispersal systems around the island. Earthquakes, lithology …