Numerical simulation on the evolution of sediment waves caused by turbidity currents

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 2429-2434

  Jiang, Tao ^a,b   Xie, Xinong ^a   Tang, Sulin ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Du, Xuebin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Numerical simulation; Sedimentary dynamics; Submarine sediment wave; Turbidity current

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548260286     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-007-0348-0     Document Type: Article

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