OS11A:
Turbidity Currents and the Morphology and Stratigraphy They Create I
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Session ID#: 57620
Session Description:
Turbidity currents constitute a major mechanism for sculpting the submarine and sublacustrine world. They excavate deep canyons, and can run out over 1000 km on deepwater fans. They create rhythmic topography such as mud waves, cyclic scour holes and meandering channels. Fan channels in particular can have levees over 50 m high. We solicit contributions across a wide spectrum in regard to a) turbidity current dynamics, including plunging, self-acceleration and self-channelization; b) associated morphology including meandering, bedforms, canyons and fans; and c) stratigraphy across the full range of deep-sea architecture. In this session we honor Henry Pantin, who was a major innovator in turbidity current dynamics, particularly in regard to self-acceleration.
Primary Convener: Robert Michael Dorrell, University of Hull, Energy and Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom
Convener: Jeffrey Peakall, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison: Gary Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Earth Science and Environmental Change & Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Chairs: Jim Best, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change, Champaign, United States, Gary Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Earth Science and Environmental Change & Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, Jeffrey Peakall, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom and Robert Michael Dorrell, University of Hull, Energy and Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison: Robert Michael Dorrell, University of Hull, Energy and Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Jim Best, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Mike Leeder, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Jeffrey Peakall, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Gary Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Earth Science and Environmental Change & Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, Robert Michael Dorrell, University of Hull, HU6 7RX, UK, Energy and Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom, Mark Franklin, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Perth, United Kingdom and William D McCaffrey, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Mathew G Wells and Shahrzad Davarpanah Jazi, University of Toronto, Physical and Environmental Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
Koen Blanckaert1, Stan Thorez1, Ulrich Lemmin2 and D. Andrew Barry2, (1)Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna, Austria, (2)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne - EPFL, Ecological Engineering Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hongbo Ma, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Jeffrey A Nittrouer, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, Brandon J McElroy, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, Yuanjian Wang, Yellow River Institute of Hydraulic Research, Zhengzhou, China, Andrew J Moodie, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, United States, Xingyu Chen, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Xudong Fu, Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China, Baosheng Wu, Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Beijing, China and Gary Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Earth Science and Environmental Change & Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Joshu J Mountjoy1, Jamie Howarth2, Alan R Orpin1, Philip Barnes3, David Bowden3, Ashley Alun Rowden3, Alexandre Schimel1, Caroline Francois-Holden4, Huw Joseph Horgan5, Scott Nodder1, Jason R Patton6, Geoffroy Lamarche7, Matt Gerstenberger4, Aaron Micallef8, Arne Pallentin3 and Timothy Kane1, (1)National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (2)Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, (3)National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (4)GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (5)Victoria University of Wellington, Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, (6)Cascadia GeoSciences, McKinleyville, CA, United States, (7)NIWA, Wellington, New Zealand, (8)University of Malta, Geosciences Faculty of Science, Msida, Malta
Katherine L Maier1, Charles K Paull1, Andrea Fildani2, David W Caress1, Krystle Anderson1, Eve M Lundsten1, Roberto Gwiazda3 and Cristian Carvajal4, (1)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (2)Equinor, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, United States, (4)Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, The Woodlands, United States
Miwa Yokokawa1, Toshiki Iwasaki2, Daiki Shozakai1, Junpei Yamano1 and Masatomo Miyai1, (1)Osaka Institute of Technology, Information Science & Technology, Hirakata, Japan, (2)Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region, Hokkaido, Japan
Jad Daif, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Andrew Gunn, Stanford University, Geological Sciences, Stanford, United States and Douglas J Jerolmack, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, United States
