Giant submarine landslides

Euan G. Nisbet and David J. W. Piper
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Euan G. Nisbet: Royal Holloway College, University of London
David J. W. Piper: the Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography

Nature, 1998, vol. 392, issue 6674, 329-330

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.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/32765

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