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turbidity current

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turbidity current
n.
A swift downhill current in water, air, or other fluid, triggered by the weight of suspended material such as silt in a current flowing down a continental shelf or snow in an avalanche.
turbidity current
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a swirling mass of water and suspended material stirred up by a tsunami, a storm, a river in flood, etc.
turbidity current  (tr-bd-t)
A swift downhill current in water, air, or other fluid, triggered by the weight of suspended material such as silt in a current flowing down a continental shelf or snow in an avalanche.
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We suggest that this increase in height can lead to minimizing the particle deposition in the turbidity current.
Numerical simulation and experimental investigation of 3-dimensional ... by Aram, Ehsan; Firoozabadi, Bahar / International Journal of Dynamics of Fluids
It seems interesting that undersea flows have at least one characteristic different from rivers: "While river floods on land can create natural levees a few meters tall, the levees formed by [undersea] turbidity currents can grow up to 100 m[eters] high" ("Hidden Canyons" SN: 1/1/05, p.
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In fact, our best "observations" of turbidity current velocities are drawn from records of the time elapsed between progressive down-slope cutting of a series of submarine telecommunication cables as a current flows.
Turbidite sedimentation by Normarck, William R.; Piper, David J.W. / Oceanus
 
 
 
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