The Mystery of Accelerating Turbidity Currents: The Curious Case of the Congo Canyon

Motivated by the remarkably large propagation distances observed in turbidity currents near the mouth of the Congo River in Africa, a new model is proposed for their dynamics. It assumes that the e...

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