Sediment transport processes at the head of Halibut Canyon, eastern Canada margin: An interplay between internal tides and dense shelf-water cascading

Marine Geology

Volumn 341, Issue , 2013, Pages 14-28

  Puig, Pere ^a   Greenan, Blair J W ^b   Li, Michael Z ^c   Prescott, Robert H ^d   Piper, David J W ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d Prescott and Zou Consulting   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dense shelf water cascade; Gravity flow; Internal tide; Sediment transport; Submarine canyon

Indexed keywords

COLD WATER TEMPERATURES; DENSE SHELF WATER; DENSE SHELF-WATER CASCADING; GRAVITY FLOWS; INTERNAL TIDES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PROCESS; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; SUBMARINES; SURFACE WATERS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TIDES;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

BEDLOAD; BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CANYON; CONTINENTAL SHELF; GRAVEL; GRAVITY FLOW; HYDROGRAPHY; INTERNAL TIDE; PERIODICITY; RESUSPENSION; SALTATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; SUBMARINE CANYON; SURFACE WATER; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CANADIAN MARGIN; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 84878732651     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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