Granular and particle-laden flows: from laboratory experiments to field observations

R Delannay, A Valance, A Mangeney… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review article provides an overview of dry granular flows and particle fluid mixtures,
including experimental and numerical modeling at the laboratory scale, large scale …

Turbulence processes within turbidity currents

MG Wells, RM Dorrell - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Sediment-laden gravity currents, or turbidity currents, are density-driven flows that transport
vast quantities of particulate material across the floor of lakes and oceans. Turbidity currents …

How are subaqueous sediment density flows triggered, what is their internal structure and how does it evolve? Direct observations from monitoring of active flows

PJ Talling, CK Paull, DJW Piper - Earth-Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Subaqueous sediment density flows are one of the volumetrically most important processes
for moving sediment across our planet, and form the largest sediment accumulations on …

Key future directions for research on turbidity currents and their deposits

PJ Talling, J Allin, DA Armitage… - Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Turbidity currents, and other types of submarine sediment density flow, redistribute more
sediment across the surface of the Earth than any other sediment flow process, yet their …

Deep-water sediment bypass

CJ Stevenson, CAL Jackson… - Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Submarine gravity flows are a key process for transporting large volumes of sediment from
the continents to the deep sea. The location, volume, and character of the sediment …

Hybrid submarine flows comprising turbidity current and cohesive debris flow: Deposits, theoretical and experimental analyses, and generalized models

PJ Talling - Geosphere, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Hybrid flows comprising both turbidity current and submarine debris flow are a significant
departure from many previous influential models for submarine sediment density flows …

The stratigraphic record and processes of turbidity current transformation across deep‐marine lobes

IA Kane, ASM Pontén, B Vangdal… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Sedimentary facies in the distal parts of deep‐marine lobes can diverge significantly from
those predicted by classical turbidite models, and sedimentological processes in these …

Cyclic steps and related supercritical bedforms: building blocks of deep-water depositional systems, western North America

JA Covault, S Kostic, CK Paull, Z Sylvester, A Fildani - Marine Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Cyclic steps are long-wave (the ratio of wavelength to height is≫ 1), upstream-migrating,
upper-flow-regime bedforms bounded by internal hydraulic jumps (ie, transition from …

Submarine transitional flow deposits in the Paleogene Gulf of Mexico

IA Kane, ASM Pontén - Geology, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Gravity-driven flows on the seafloor are the largest, yet least well understood, sediment
transport agents on Earth. Recent exploration wells in ultradeep basins have revealed the …

What determines the downstream evolution of turbidity currents?

CJ Heerema, PJ Talling, MJ Cartigny, CK Paull… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Seabed sediment flows called turbidity currents form some of the largest sediment
accumulations, deepest canyons and longest channel systems on Earth. Only rivers …