Giant submarine landslides

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 1998 United Kingdom English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 392, pages 329-330 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: Nisbet, Euan G.; Piper, David J. W.;

doi: 10.1038/32765

Giant submarine landslides

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Abstract

Submarine landslides can generate enormous turbidity currents that carry that carry 500 km3or more of sediment down to the oceans' abyssal plains. The slides can cause Tsunamis, and may release large amounts of methane to the air.

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United Kingdom

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University of London
United Kingdom
Royal Holloway University of London
United Kingdom
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Canada
Geological Survey of Canada
Canada

Keywords

Submarine landslides, methane, sediments, abyssal plains, Faculty of Science\Earth Sciences, Research Groups and Centres\Earth Sciences\Ancient and Modern Earth Systems, 551, 333, turbidites

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