Submarine turbidity currents form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth, raising the
question of their role in global carbon cycles. It was previously inferred that terrestrial …

A never solved problem in sedimentary petrology is the origin of sandstone consisting
exclusively of quartz and most durable heavy minerals. The Congo River offers an excellent …

Here we show how major rivers can efficiently connect to the deep-sea, by analysing the
longest runout sediment flows (of any type) yet measured in action on Earth. These seafloor …

Seabed-hugging flows called turbidity currents are the volumetrically most important process
transporting sediment across our planet and form its largest sediment accumulations. We …

The largest canyons on Earth occur on the seafloor, and seabed sediment flows called
turbidity currents play a key role in carving these submarine canyons. However, the …

Monitoring of modern deep‐water channels has revealed how migrating channel‐floor
features generate and remove stratigraphy, improving understanding of how channel …

Towed camera systems are commonly used to collect photo and video images of the deep
seafloor for a wide variety of purposes, from pure exploratory research to the development of …

Observations from the modern seafloor that suggest turbidity currents tend to erode as they
lose channel-levee confinement, rather than decelerating and depositing their sediment …

EM122 multibeam backscatter data acquired from the Caiwei seamounts and the deep-sea
basin to its west in the western Pacific Ocean, is used to identify the distributions of …

Abstract The Congo River, the second largest river in the world, is a major source of organic
matter for the deep Atlantic Ocean because of the connection of its estuary to the deep …