turbidity current in a sentence
Examples
- From these turbidites the predicted history of turbidity currents in this area was determined, increasing the overall understanding of these currents.
- At the end of the canyon the turbidity current spreads out and creates giant fans of sediment that blanket the deep seafloor.
- Generally as soon as the flow begins to move, fluid turbulence results and the flow rapidly evolves into a turbidity current.
- Turbidity currents responsible for wave generation are interpreted as originating from slope failures on the adjacent Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname continental margins.
- Sediments were deposited in the ocean floor in the form of fans formed by turbidity currents off the side of a continental slope.
- It is now recognized that the vertical progression of sedimentary structures described by Bouma applies to turbidites deposited by low-density turbidity currents.
- In the long term numerical techniques are most likely the best hope of understanding and predicting three-dimensional turbidity current processes and deposits.
- A dense slurry of muds and sands accelerates towards the foot of the slope until the gradient levels off and the turbidity current slows.
- Much of this sediment is deposited from turbidity currents that have been channeled from the continental margins along submarine canyons down into deeper water.
- The extreme complexity of most turbidite systems and beds has promoted the development of quantitative models of turbidity current behaviour inferred solely from their deposits.