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APPLICATION OF THEORY TO AN ATLANTIC TURBIDITY‐CURRENT PATH
Author(s) -
JOHNSON M. A.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
sedimentology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.494
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1365-3091
pISSN - 0037-0746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3091.1966.tb01582.x
Subject(s) - turbidity current , turbidite , current (fluid) , geology , turbidity , sediment , flow (mathematics) , geotechnical engineering , geomorphology , hydrology (agriculture) , oceanography , mechanics , sedimentary depositional environment , physics , structural basin
SUMMARY Some results of turbidity‐current theory are applied to analyses of turbidite layers in cores from the route of a large turbidity current of sheet‐flow type. Novel features are that current velocity is estimated from the sediment sizes deposited, and the lateral spreading of the current is considered. An approximate quantitative picture of the current is obtained. It is compared with the turbidity current which caused the Grand Banks cable breaks.