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Continental shelf and slope processes

World map showing distribution of SEAfloor FLuid Expulsion Anomalies (SEAFLEASs)
Posted inEditors' Highlights

A New Global Map of Seafloor Fluid Expulsion Anomalies

by Claudio Faccenna 20 April 202017 April 2020

The first open-source database of SEAfloor FLuid Expulsion Anomalies (SEAFLEASs) at a global scale reveals their distribution and physical parameters.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Follow The ‘Hum’: The Seismic Signal of Pacific Ocean Storms

by M. Long 27 March 2019

Have you ever noticed that the Earth is humming? Seismologists have! Discover how individual storms in the northern Pacific Ocean generate a long-period seismic signal.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Pumping Offshore Groundwater Resources Has Consequences on Land

by M. B. Cardenas 22 March 201912 March 2019

While vast volumes of fresh groundwater are located offshore, pumping these reserves can also deplete on-shore aquifers and cause land subsidence.

A rock sequence formed by deep-sea turbidity currents
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Do Turbidity Currents Accelerate?

by Terri Cook 7 January 20197 January 2019

Flume experiments show that a self-reinforcing cycle can strengthen the currents responsible for transporting large amounts of sediment to the deep oceans.

View of the Ross ice shelf from the OGS Explora, 9 February 2017.
Posted inScience Updates

Exploring the Unknown of the Ross Sea in Sea Ice–Free Conditions

by Laura De Santis, Florence Colleoni, A. Bergamasco, M. Rebesco, D. Accettella, V. Kovacevic, J. Gales, K. Sookwan and E. Olivo 11 October 201812 October 2018

A team of polar scientists aboard the OGS Explora, cruising in rare ice-free conditions, discovered new evidence of ancient and modern-day ice sheet sensitivity to climatic fluctuations.

Researchers look at offshore sediments to trace the history of the world’s tallest coastal mountain range
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Mountain Range's History Preserved in Ocean Sediments

by Terri Cook 7 April 2017

Fission track dating core samples from the Gulf of Alaska demonstrates that offshore sediments can be used to reconstruct a mountain range's changing exhumation patterns.

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Simulating Tidal Flow and Mixing at Steep Submarine Slopes

by Sarah Stanley 21 January 201621 January 2016

A new three-dimensional model of tide-driven flow over the continental slope could enhance understanding of global ocean circulation.

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