Influence of Coriolis forces on turbidity currents and sediment deposition

ERCOFTAC Series

Volumn 11, Issue , 2007, Pages 331-343

  Wells, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964277314     PISSN: 13824309     EISSN: 22151826     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6218-6_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (26)

1. Alavian, V. (1986) Behavior of density currents on an incline. J. Hydraulic Eng. 112:27-42
2. Cenedese, C., Whitehead, J.A., Ascarelli, T.A. & Ohiwa, M. (2004) A dense current flowing down a sloping bottom in a rotating fluid. J. Phys. Oceanog. 34:188-203
3. Dallimore, C.J., Imberger J., & Ishikawa, T. (2001) Entrainment and turbulence in saline underflow in Lake Ogawara. J. Hydraul. Eng. 127:937-948
4. Davies, P.A., Wahlin, A.K. & Guo, Y. (2006) Laboratory and analytical model studies of the Faroe Bank Channel deep-water outflow. J. Phys. Ocean. 36:1348-1364
5. Ellison, T.H. & Turner, J.S. (1959) Turbulent entrainment in stratified flows. J. Fluid Mech. 6:423-448
6. Emms, P.W. (1999) On the ignition of geostrophically rotating turbidity currents. Sedimentology 46:1049-1063
7. Etling, D., Gelhardt, F., Schrader, U., Brennecke, F., Kuhn, G., Chabert d'Hieres, G. & Didelle, H. (2000) Experiments with density currents on a sloping bottom in a rotating fluid. Dyn. Atmos. Oceans. 31:139-164
8. Griffiths, R.A. (1986) Gravity currents in rotating systems. Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech. 18:59-89
9. Hallworth, M.A., Huppert, H.E. & Ungarsish, M. (2001) Axisymmetric gravity currents in a rotating system: experimental and numerical investigations. J. Fluid Mech. 447:1-29
10. Heezen, B.C. & Ewing, M. (1952) Turbidity currents and submarine slumps, and the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake. Am. J. Sci. 12:849-873
11. Hogg, A.J., Ungarish, M. & Huppert, H.E. (2001) Effects of particle sedimentation and rotation on axisymmetric gravity currents. Phys. Fluids 13:3687-3698
12. Horner-Devine, A.R., Fong, D.A., Monismith, S.G. & Maxworthy, T. (2006) Laboratory experiments simulating a coastal river inflow. J. Fluid Mech. 555:203-232
13. Huppert, H.E. (1998) Quantitative modelling of granular suspension flows. Proc. Royal Soc. 356:2471-2496
14. Jacobs, P. & Ivey, G.N. (1998) The influence of rotation on shelf convection. J. Fluid Mech. 369:23-48
15. Kneller, B. & Buckee, C. (2000) The structure and fluid mechanics of turbidity currents: a review of some recent studies and their geological implications. Sedimentology 47:62-94
16. Middleton, G.V. (1993) Sediment deposition from turbidity currents. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 21:89-114
17. Nof, D. (1996) Rotational turbidity flows and the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake. Deep Sea Res. 43:1143-1163
18. Parker, G., Fukushima, Y. & Pantin, H.M. (1986) Self-accelerating turbidity currents. J. Fluid Mech. 171:145-181
19. Piper, D.J.W., Shor, A.N., Far're, J.A., O'Connell, S. & Jacobi, R. (1985) Sediment slides and turbidity currents on the Laurentian Fan; sidescan sonar investigations near the epicentre of the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake. Geology 13:538-541
20. Price, J.F. & Baringer,M.O. (1993) Outflows and deep water production by marginal seas. Prog. Ocean. 33:161-200
21. Princevac, M., Fernando, H.J.H. & Whiteman, C.D. (2005) Turbulent entrainment into natural gravity driven flows. J. Fluid. Mech. 533:259-268
22. Shapiro, G.I. & Zatsepin, A.G. (1997) Gravity current down a steeply inclined slope in a rotating fluid. Ann. Geophysicae 15:366-374
23. Turner, J.S. (1986) Turbulent entrainment - the developement of the entrainment assumption and its application to geophysical flows. J. Fluid. Mech. 173:431-471
24. Ungarish, M. & Huppert, H.E. (1999) Simple models of Coriolisinfluenced axisymmetric particle-driven gravity currents. Int. J. Multi. Flow 25:715-737
25. Wells, M.G. & Wettlaufer, J.S. (2005) Two-dimensional density currents in a confined basin. Geophys. Astro. Fluid Dyn. 99:199-218
26. Wells, M.G. & Wettlaufer, J.S. (2006) The long-term circulation driven by density currents in a two-layer stratified basin. J. Fluid. Mech. (accepted)