Cool, not dangerous. Just like avalanches, turbidity currents are incredibly fast (up to 60 miles per hour!) and have been known to take out anything that gets in their way. After the Grand Banks ...

Powerful turbidity currents driven by dense basal layers. Nature Communications, 2018; 9 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06254-6 ...

The earthquake-triggered turbidity current that occurred offshore of eastern Canada in 1929 is estimated to have been 400 m tall, lasted for at least 12 hours, and traveled hundreds of km into the ...

The highest velocity turbidity-current flow ever measured instrumentally (8.1 meters/second). The first quantitative evidence that during some sediment events, movements in the seafloor propagated ...

The paper, by M. Azpiroz-Zabala at National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Newly recognized turbidity current structure can explain prolonged flushing of ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers reports the detection of the formidable turbidity current, powerful underwater avalanches, that took place across January 14 to 16, 2020.

Convolute lamination and other sedimentary structures have been observed repeatedly in sequences characterized also by graded bedding. As a result, practically all have come to be regarded ...