Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Morphodynamics of submarine channel inception revealed by new experimental approach

  • Jan de Leeuw,
  • Joris T. Eggenhuisen,
  • Matthieu J. B. Cartigny

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10886
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Suspended sediment currents travel through channels on the ocean floor to deliver enormous volumes of sediment to the deep ocean. Here, using a new approach for scaled laboratory experiments, the authors show how feedback between these currents and their deposits drive the formation of these submarine channels.