Ian A. Kane

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that thermohaline-driven currents can control the distribution of microplastics by creating hotspots of accumulation, analogous to their role in causing focused areas of seafloor sediment deposition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize existing knowledge of seafloor microplastic distribution, and integrate this with process-based sedimentological models of particle transport, to provide new insights, and critically, to identify future research challenges.

TL;DR: In this paper, a suite of characteristic sedimentary features are recognized from internal and external levees respectively: internal levees are characterised by structures indicative of complexity in the waxing-waning style of overspill, interactions with topography and flow magnitude variability; in contrast, external levees are characterized by simple surgelike waning flows, relatively uniform flow directions, laterally extensive beds, and a lack of erosive events.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report field observations of an Upper Cretaceous submarine channel-levee complex within the Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico, which provide high-resolution data of lithofacies and ichnofacies distribution, and levee depositional thickness decay along transects perpendicular to the channel axis.