Turbidity currents move suspended sediment into the ocean. In general, the more sediment, the stronger the turbidity current, but one process may generate turbidity currents from very dilute rivers.
Geophysical Research Letters
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Examining the Structure of Tropical Cyclones’ Upper Levels
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Explaining the Missing Energy in Mars’s Electrons
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CAT Pictures of Internal Solitary Waves in Indonesian Strait
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Polar Stratosphere Resolves North Atlantic Jet “Tug of War”
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