Subaqueous debris flow behaviour and its dependence on the sand/clay ratio: A laboratory study using particle tracking

Marine Geology

Volumn 213, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 415-438

  Ilstad, Trygve ^a,c   Elverhøi, Anders ^a   Issler, Dieter ^a   Marr, Jeffrey G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Reinertsen Engineering AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

debris flows; flow behaviour; gravity flows; laboratory experiment; particle tracking; sand clay ratio

Indexed keywords

COHERENT FLOW; HYDROPLANING; MASS FRACTION;

CLAY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LUBRICATION; RHEOLOGY; SAND; SEDIMENTS; SLURRIES; YIELD STRESS;

DEBRIS;

CLAY; DEBRIS FLOW; FAILURE MECHANISM; LABORATORY METHOD; PARTICLE MOTION; SAND; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE;

EID: 10644278091     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2004.10.017     Document Type: Article

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