Sediment Waves and Gullies Generated by Turbidity Currents

Abstract

The main goal of this investigation is to test the hypothesis that turbidity currents might be able of producing sand waves resembling anti-dunes and evenly-spaced gullies, such those revealed by recent surveys off northern California, on the sea floor and preserved within continental slope deposits (Spinelli and Field, 2001).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA627788

Entities

People

  • Marcelo H. García

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • California
  • Chemistry
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Continental Slopes
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Flow
  • Fluid Flow
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Mechanics
  • Seabed
  • Sediments
  • Submarines
  • Turbidity
  • Turbidity Currents
  • Water Chemistry

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Oceanography.

Technology Areas

  • Space