Turbidity currents in submarine canyons often involve large-scale movement of the seafloor. This discovery could help ocean engineers avoid damage to pipelines, communications cables, and other ...

The first measurements of changes in the internal velocity structure within a turbidity current as it progressed down canyon. The first quantitative data showing that, in early stages of some events, ...

Scientists have measured an underwater mud avalanche that lasted two days and crossed more than 1,100 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean floor. The sediment avalanche, or turbidity current as the ...

Turbidity currents have historically been described as fast-moving currents that sweep down submarine canyons, carrying sand and mud into the deep sea. But a new paper in Nature Communications shows ...