Detailed monitoring reveals the nature of submarine turbidity currents

PJ Talling, MJB Cartigny, E Pope, M Baker… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Seafloor sediment flows, called turbidity currents, form the largest sediment accumulations,
deepest canyons and longest channels on Earth. It was once thought that turbidity currents …

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 …

On the triggers, resulting flow types and frequencies of subaqueous sediment density flows in different settings

PJ Talling - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

Submarine landslide tsunamis: how extreme and how likely?

CB Harbitz, F Løvholt, H Bungum - Natural Hazards, 2014 - Springer
A number of examples are presented to substantiate that submarine landslides have
occurred along most continental margins and along several volcano flanks. Their properties …

Lacustrine turbidites as a tool for quantitative earthquake reconstruction: New evidence for a variable rupture mode in south central Chile

J Moernaut, MV Daele, K Heirman… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the long‐term earthquake recurrence pattern at subduction zones requires
continuous paleoseismic records with excellent temporal and spatial resolution and stable …

Large submarine landslides on continental slopes: geohazards, methane release, and climate change

PJ Talling, ML CLARE, M Urlaub, E Pope, JE Hunt… - Oceanography, 2014 - JSTOR
Submarine landslides on open continental slopes can be prodigious in scale. They are an
important process for global sediment fluxes, and can generate very damaging tsunamis …

Calibrating the marine turbidite palaeoseismometer using the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake

JD Howarth, AR Orpin, Y Kaneko, LJ Strachan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Turbidite palaeoseismology has produced arguably the most comprehensive multimillennial
scale records of subduction-zone earthquakes but is underpinned by techniques that are …

Lake sediments as natural seismographs: A compiled record of Late Quaternary earthquakes in Central Switzerland and its implication for Alpine deformation

M Strasser, K Monecke, M Schnellmann… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Central Switzerland lies tectonically in an intraplate area and recurrence rates of strong
earthquakes exceed the time span covered by historic chronicles. However, many lakes are …

Which triggers produce the most erosive, frequent, and longest runout turbidity currents on deltas?

JL Hizzett, JE Hughes Clarke… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Subaerial rivers and turbidity currents are the two most voluminous sediment transport
processes on our planet, and it is important to understand how they are linked offshore from …