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turbidity & turbidites

Stacked sedimentary rock layers of different thicknesses make up a turbidite bed.
Posted inScience Updates

Submarine Avalanche Deposits Hold Clues to Past Earthquakes

by Valerie Sahakian, Debi Kilb, Joan Gomberg, Nora Nieminski and Jake Covault 18 March 202418 March 2024

Scientists are making progress on illuminating how undersea sedimentary deposits called turbidites form and on reconstructing the complex histories they record. But it’s not an easy task.

Sediments of various sizes sit on the seafloor. A blossoming, white sunbeam flares against the blue backdrop of the sea.
Posted inNews

Deep-Sea Sand and Where to Find It

by Emily Shepherd 30 March 202314 March 2024

Ancient underwater avalanches carried sand into the ocean’s abyss during a time when some least expected it.

Diagram showing the formation and preservation of the iron sulfide greigite in bioturbidated anoxic sediments.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Mechanism for “Giant” Greigite Growth in Deep-Sea Sediments

by Agnes Kontny 2 December 202214 March 2024

Understanding greigite formation pathways in sediments is a prerequisite for assessing the marine iron-sulfur-carbon cycle and yield reliable near-syn-sedimentary paleomagnetic records.

Satellite images of four different river basins.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Disentangling River Water Turbidity and its Flow

by Simone Bizzi 3 November 202214 March 2024

A new study shows why fine sediments in rivers are not simply proportional to the water flow across the United States.

Sensors attached to an orange buoy on the deck of a research vessel
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River Floods Can Trigger Powerful Underwater Landslides

by Carolyn Wilke 26 August 202214 March 2024

A record-length turbidity current triggered by river flooding has revealed a new link between the surface and the deep sea.

A black and white Secchi disk being held by a person
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The Simple Usefulness of the Secchi Disk

by Miriam Reid 18 July 202214 March 2024

A centuries-old sailor’s hack enters the ecologist’s toolkit.

A sunset over the ocean is seen through rope netting on a ship
Posted inScience Updates

Mapping a River Beneath the Sea

by Sebastian Krastel and David C. Mosher 28 January 202214 March 2024

A recent expedition mapped one of the world’s longest submarine channels, revealing previously undiscovered physical features and raising questions about its unusual origin and shape.

Dead tree trunks and stumps stand along a shoreline
Posted inScience Updates

Swipe Left on the “Big One”: Better Dates for Cascadia Quakes

by J. K. Pearl and L. Staisch 20 August 202114 March 2024

Improving our understanding of hazards posed by future large earthquakes on the Cascadia Subduction Zone requires advancements in the methods and sampling used to date and characterize past events.

Sediment swirls and mixes with water in a brown slurry
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Experimenting with Underwater Sediment Slides

by Terri Cook 8 October 202014 March 2024

Sediment-laden currents caused by breaching flow slides are hazardous to flood defenses and seabed infrastructure. New research shows that these phenomena must be accounted for in erosion simulations.

Sketches of observations at the study site on consecutive days
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Submarine Rivers of Sediment

by A. M. Hogg 14 November 201914 March 2024

Turbidity currents move suspended sediment into the ocean. In general, the more sediment, the stronger the turbidity current, but one process may generate turbidity currents from very dilute rivers.

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