Newly Recognized Turbidity Current Structure Can Explain Prolonged Flushing of Submarine Canyons (IMAGE)

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Newly Recognized Turbidity Current Structure Can Explain Prolonged Flushing of Submarine Canyons

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Deployment of ocean-floor mooring from research vessel's back deck. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 04 Oct. 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Azpiroz-Zabala at National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Newly recognized turbidity current structure can explain prolonged flushing of submarine canyons."

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