Submarine canyon development controlled by slope failure and oceanographic process interactions

D Harishidayat, Y Niyazi, HA Stewart, A Al-Shuhail… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The southeastern Australian margin hosts a series of submarine canyons. Although the
origin and evolution of canyons within the northwestern segment of the margin is relatively …

The diverse morphology of pockmarks around Aotearoa New Zealand

JIT Hillman, SJ Watson, KL Maier… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Seafloor pockmarks are abundant around Aotearoa New Zealand, occurring across a
diverse range of tectonic, sedimentological and geomorphological settings. Globally, the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of platform margin collapses and slope landslides in the initiation and evolution of submarine canyons

J Chen, Q Li, S Wu, S Liu - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The Zhongsha Platform is the largest modern isolated carbonate platform of around 8600
km2 in the South China Sea, providing a unique case study for sedimentary processes in …

Gas migration phenomena and pockmark evolution in a Gulf of Mexico minibasin

MA Lawal, AE Cook - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2024 - Elsevier
Seafloor pockmarks vent potent greenhouse gasses into the ocean, support lush
chemosynthetic communities and sequester carbon on the seafloor. However, the processes …

First geological survey and characterisation of a giant depression in carbonate strata at the Rio Grande Rise (southwestern Atlantic)

AH Ferraz, C Millo, PCF Giannini, TC Felipe… - Geomorphology, 2024 - Elsevier
Pockmarks are submarine depressions often considered the result of fluid (gas and oil)
expulsion from the seafloor. Recent geophysical surveys at the Rio Grande Rise (RGR-SW …

Channel inception through bottom‐current erosion of pockmarks revealed by numerical simulation

K Yu, A Lefebvre, W Li, W Zhan… - Earth Surface …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In deep‐marine environments, the inception of channels can be induced by the interaction
between bottom currents and rough topography. However, it is still unclear under which …

Evolution of a buried moat–drift system in the Ewing Terrace uncovering highly dynamic bottom currents at the Argentine margin from the early Oligocene to middle …

E Unland, E Miramontes, V Spiess… - Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Ewing Terrace is a relatively flat surface formed by the action of bottom
currents and part of a contourite depositional system (CDS) at the Argentine continental …