Dispersion, accumulation, and the ultimate fate of microplastics in deep-marine environments: a review and future directions

IA Kane, MA Clare - Frontiers in earth science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
An estimated 8.3 billion tons of non-biodegradable plastic has been produced over the last
65 years. Much of this is not recycled and is disposed into the natural environment, has a …

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 …

Transport and burial of microplastics in deep-marine sediments by turbidity currents

F Pohl, JT Eggenhuisen, IA Kane… - Environmental science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The threat posed by plastic pollution to marine ecosystems and human health is under
increasing scrutiny. Much of the macro-and microplastic in the ocean ends up on the …

[HTML][HTML] Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Their past, present and future contributions to the advancement of marine geoscience

RB Wynn, VAI Huvenne, TP Le Bas, BJ Murton… - Marine geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have a wide range of applications in
marine geoscience, and are increasingly being used in the scientific, military, commercial …

Environmental signal propagation in sedimentary systems across timescales

BW Romans, S Castelltort, JA Covault, A Fildani… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Earth-surface processes operate across erosionally dominated landscapes and deliver
sediment to depositional systems that can be preserved over a range of timescales. The …

Distinguishing between deep-water sediment facies: turbidites, contourites and hemipelagites

D Stow, Z Smillie - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The distinction between turbidites, contourites and hemipelagites in modern and ancient
deep-water systems has long been a matter of controversy. This is partly because the …

Powerful turbidity currents driven by dense basal layers

CK Paull, PJ Talling, KL Maier, D Parsons, J Xu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Seafloor sediment flows (turbidity currents) are among the volumetrically most important yet
least documented sediment transport processes on Earth. A scarcity of direct observations …

[PDF][PDF] 鄂尔多斯盆地延长组7 段Ⅱ 类页岩油风险勘探突破及其意义

付金华, 李士祥, 侯雨庭, 周新平, 刘江艳, 李树同 - 中国石油勘探, 2020 - cped.cn
2019 年长庆油田在鄂尔多斯盆地延长组72 段(长73 段) 厚层泥页岩夹薄层粉细砂岩类型的页岩
油中, 部署2 口水平井开展风险勘探攻关试验. 城页1 井和城页2 井两口水平井试油分获121.38 …

Newly recognized turbidity current structure can explain prolonged flushing of submarine canyons

M Azpiroz-Zabala, MJB Cartigny, PJ Talling… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Seabed-hugging flows called turbidity currents are the volumetrically most important process
transporting sediment across our planet and form its largest sediment accumulations. We …

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 …