Journal article
Turbidity currents; monitoring their occurrence and movement with a three-dimensional sensor network
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Vol.224(4647), pp.384-387
04/27/1984
DOI: 10.1126/science.224.4647.384
PMID: 17741217
Abstract
Array of optical and thermal sensors, operated in a glacial lake in southeastern British Columbia. Detailed information on the character of surge events with velocities reaching 110 centimeters per second and continuous underflows exceeding 90 centimeters per second. The findings (i) indicate that such currents are frequent events, occurring with density differences between the incoming stream water and the lake water as low as 0.19 kilogram per cubic meter of water; (ii) document the differences in the initiation and internal characteristics of the continuous and surge events; and (iii) support the concept of erosion for all turbidity currents.--Modified journal abstract.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Turbidity currents; monitoring their occurrence and movement with a three-dimensional sensor network
- Creators
- Frank H Weirich - University of California, Los Angeles
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Vol.224(4647), pp.384-387
- Publisher
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- DOI
- 10.1126/science.224.4647.384
- PMID
- 17741217
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
- eISSN
- 1095-9203
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/27/1984
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering; Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984229298402771
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