A submarine landslide boulder preserved in 240-million-year-old deep-sea sediments, Dolomite Mountains. In November 1929, a large earthquake severed a transatlantic cable connecting Europe with the ...

Turbidity currents are an important natural process that often goes unnoticed: these powerful currents beneath the ocean surface carve deep submarine canyons, create huge sediment deposits and can ...

Durham University scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in marine geoscience, revealing unprecedented insights into the dynamics of Earth’s longest runout sediment flows. By using seabed ...

Daniel Orange, Ph.D., Kara Scheu, Ph.D. Geophysical hazards, such as undersea earthquakes, landslides, and sediment flows (or turbidity currents), pose significant risk to submarine cables. Submarine ...

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of microplastics into the deep sea, according to new research published today. The ...

Turbidity refers to the cloudiness or haziness of water, caused by suspended particles including clay, silt, organic matter, rust, and other fine debris. These particles scatter and absorb light, ...

Turbidity is an optical property of liquids that quantifies the extent to which suspended and colloidal particles scatter and absorb light, reducing its transmission and causing loss of clarity. It is ...