Normalized velocity profiles of field-measured turbidity currents

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 563-566

  Xu, J P ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATING PROCESS; DEPTH-AVERAGED VELOCITIES; EMPIRICAL FUNCTIONS; FIELD DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MAXIMUM SPEED; STREAMWISE VELOCITY; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUPER-CRITICAL; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TIME-SCALES; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VELOCITY PROFILES;

OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBIDITY;

VELOCITY;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; JET; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 77955936034     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30582.1     Document Type: Article

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