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Miramontes, Elda; Eggenhuisen, Joris T.; Silva Jacinto, Ricardo; Poneti, Giovanni; Pohl, Florian; Normandeau, Alexandre; Campbell, D. Calvin; Hernandez-molina, F. Javier. |
Turbidity currents and contour currents are common sedimentary and oceanographic processes in deep-marine settings that affect continental margins worldwide. Their simultaneous interaction can form asymmetric and unidirectionally migrating channels, which can lead to opposite interpretations of paleocontour current direction: channels migrating against the contour current or in the direction of the contour current. In this study, we performed three-dimensional flume-tank experiments of the synchronous interaction between contour currents and turbidity currents to understand the effect of these combined currents on channel architecture and evolution. Our results show that contour currents with a velocity of 10-19 cm s(-1) can substantially deflect the... |
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Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00624/73602/73028.pdf |
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Hermidas, Navid; Silva Jacinto, Ricardo; Eggenhuisen, Joris T.; Luthi, Stefan M.. |
A new viscoelastic constitutive model for subaqueous clay-rich gravity flows is presented. It is explained that for the materials which exhibit a minimum in their strain controlled flow curves the structure parameter must be a symmetric function of strain rate and stress. Therefore, the destruction of structure within the material is modeled using the dissipation energy. An expression for the elastic strain of the flowing structure is derived. The final set of equations can reproduce the viscosity bifurcation that clay suspensions may exhibit under a given load. This is explained to be important for prediction of the run-out distance of clay-rich gravity flows. The ability of the model to reproduce the general response of pasty materials to step stress and... |
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Palavras-chave: Gravity flow; Thixotropy; Clay suspension; Viscosity bifurcation. |
Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00483/59497/62365.pdf |
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