Experimental study on self-accelerating turbidity currents

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Sequeiros, Octavio E ^d   Naruse, Hajime ^c   Endo, Noritaka ^a   Garcia, Marcelo H ^b   Parker, Gary ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TURBIDITY; VELOCITY;

BED MATERIALS; BED SLOPE; CHANNEL BED; DENSIMETRIC FROUDE NUMBER; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EQUIVALENT PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIELD SCALE; GRAVITY FLOWS; PAPER DOCUMENTS; PARTICLE SETTLING VELOCITY; PLASTIC PARTICLE; SIMILARITY ANALYSIS; SLOPING BOTTOM; STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TURBIDITY CURRENT; WATER DEPTH;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

ACCRETION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENTRAINMENT; EROSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAVITY FLOW; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SETTLING VELOCITY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VELOCITY;

EID: 68749107334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005149     Document Type: Article

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