A turbidity current is most typically an underwater current of usually rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope; although current research...

a turbidity reading), a correlation between turbidity and total suspended solids (TSS) is somewhat unusual for each location or situation. Turbidity in...

or stream Ocean current Longshore current Boundary current Rip current Rip tide Subsurface currents Turbidity current Tidal current Laminar flow v t e...

its own current type. This is the turbidity current. Turbidity current is caused when the density of water is increased by sediment. This current is the...

suggested that a 60-mile-per-hour (100 km/h) submarine landslide or turbidity current of water-saturated sediments swept 400 miles (600 km) down the continental...

structures in turbidite sandstone beds that are deposited by high-density turbidity currents. It is intended to complement, not replace, the better known Bouma...

the Congo deep-sea fan and extends for an additional 220 km. The turbidity currents found in Congo Canyon are the strongest measured in the world. These...

A turbidite is the geologic deposit of a turbidity current, which is a type of amalgamation of fluidal and sediment gravity flow responsible for distributing...

subaqueous settings. However, grain-to-grain interactions in high-density turbidity currents are very important as a contributing mechanism of sediment support...

slopes, the sedimentary cover can become unstable, causing turbidity currents. Turbidity currents are sudden disturbances of the normally quiet deep marine...