Turbidity Currents, Bedforms, and Gullies

Abstract

Our main goal is the development of physically-based models for submarine sediment movement that can be used to predict the initiation, spatial development, and time duration of mud flows and turbidity currents. Of particular interest are the characteristics of the sedimentary deposits generated by density underflows, mainly their capability to develop bed forms and gullies by means of sediment erosion and deposition and their role in the formation of strata in continental margins.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA625966

Entities

People

  • Marcelo H. García

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Base Flow
  • Continental Slopes
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flow
  • Fluid Flow
  • Information Operations
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Perturbations
  • Richardson Number
  • Sediments
  • Submarines
  • Suspended Sediments
  • Transport Ships
  • Turbidity
  • Turbidity Currents

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Riverine Ecology