Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Reconstructing the sediment concentration of a giant submarine gravity flow

  • Christopher John Stevenson,
  • Peter Feldens,
  • Aggeliki Georgiopoulou,
  • Mischa Schӧnke,
  • Sebastian Krastel,
  • David J. W. Piper,
  • Katja Lindhorst,
  • David Mosher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05042-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Giant submarine gravity flows are a key mechanism in global sediment transport, yet their properties remain enigmatic. Here, the authors reconstruct the properties of a historic giant submarine gravity flow from deposits across the seafloor.