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Shaping of the continental rise by deep geostrophic contour currents.
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Geostrophic contour-following bottom currents involved in the deep thermohaline circulation of the world ocean appear to be the principal agents which control the shape of the continental rise and other sediment bodies.Abstract:
Geostrophic contour-following bottom currents involved in the deep thermohaline circulation of the world ocean appear to be the principal agents which control the shape of the continental rise and other sediment bodies.read more
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Seismic features diagnostic of contourite drifts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived criteria for the recognition of contourite vs. turbidite deposits, based on the analysis of many seismic profiles from both published and unpublished sources.
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Contourites and associated sediments controlled by deep-water circulation processes: State-of-the-art and future considerations
TL;DR: The contourite paradigm was conceived a few decades ago, yet there remains a need to establish a sound connection between contourites, basin evolution and oceanographic processes.
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50 years of the turbidite paradigm (1950s—1990s): deep-water processes and facies models—a critical perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, a slope model is proposed that is a debris-flow dominated setting with both non-channelized and channelized systems, based on fluid rheology and flow state.
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Growth Patterns of Deep-Sea Fans
TL;DR: The La Jolla and San Lucas deep-sea fans with the deep-towed instrument package developed at Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography details the fine-scale morphology, structure and internal fill of the fan-valleys and suggests the growth patterns of these fans as mentioned in this paper.
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Cenozoic tectonics of the western United States
Warren Hamilton,W. Bradley Myers +1 more
TL;DR: The Cenozoic structures of the western United States are interpreted here as being products mostly of horizontal motion of the crust, and the distribution of strike-slip faulting, tensional fragmentation of the brittle upper crust or rupturing of the entire continental crust and compression define a pattern of northwestward motion increasing irregularly southwestward toward coastal California.
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Atlantic Deep-Sea Sediment Cores
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed analysis of seafloor sediment cores from the Atlantic and Caribbean deep-sea cores, showing that the sediment layers are interbedded with late Pleistocene sediments of abyssal facies and commonly contain organic remains of shallow water origin.
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Atlantic Ocean atlas of temperature and salinity profiles and data from the International Geophysical Year of 1957-1958
TL;DR: The cost of preparation and publication of this atlas was borne by a grant from the National Science Foundation, made in support of the International Geophysical Year Interdisciplinary Research Program as discussed by the authors.
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Deep-sea current evidence from abyssal sediments☆
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the acceleration velocities necessary for the transport of deep-sea sediment particles probably range from 4-60 cm/sec, similar to those found through dynamic computations of geostrophic currents and observed by recent deep sea direct current measurements.