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SUBMITTER: Dorrell RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6437198 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190327 1
Gravity currents are the primary means by which sediments, solutes and heat are transported across the ocean-floor. Existing theory of gravity current flow employs a statistically-stable model of turbulent diffusion that has been extant since the 1960s. Here we present the first set of detailed spatial data from a gravity current over a rough seafloor that demonstrate that this existing paradigm is not universal. Specifically, in contrast to predictions from turbulent diffusion theory, self-shar ...[more]