Some References on Sediment Gravity Flows

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Bagnold, R.A., 1954. Experiments on a gravity-free dispersion of large solid spheres in a Newtonian fluid under shear. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., A 225, 49– 63.

Bagnold, R.A., 1956. The flow of cohesionless grains in fluids. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., A 249, 235– 297. Bagnold, R.A., 1962. Auto-suspension of transported sediment: turbidity current. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., A 265, 315– 319.

Bagnold, R.A., 1966. The shearing dilatation of dry sand and the ‘singing’ mechanism. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., A 295, 219– 232.

Carter, R.M., 1975. A discussion and classification of subaqueous mass-transport with particular application to gravity flow, slurry flow and fluxoturbidites. Earth-Sci. Rev. 11, 145– 177.

Cas, R.A.F., Landis, C.A., 1987. A debris flow deposit with multiple plug-flow channels and associated side accretion deposits. Sedimentology 34, 901– 910.

Davies, T.R.H., 1990. Debris-flow surges—experimental simulation. N.Z.J. Hydrol. 29, 18– 46.

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Dorsey, R.J. and Falk, P., 1999, Reply. Rapid development of gravelly high-density turbidity currents in marine Gilbert-type fan deltas, Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sedimentology, v. 46, p. 763-767.

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Fisher, R.V., 1971. Features of coarse-grained, high-concentration fluids and their deposits. J. Sediment. Petrol. 41, 916– 927.

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Hampton, M. A. (1979). Buoyancy in debris flows. Journal Sedimentary Petrology, 49, 753–758.

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Kim, S.B., Chough, S.K., Chun, S.S., 1995. Bouldery deposits in the lowermost part of the Cretaceous Kyokpori Formation, SW Korea: cohesionless debris flows and debris falls on a steep gradient delta slope. Sediment. Geol. 98, 97–119. 250– 252.

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Lowe, D.R., 1979. Sediment gravity flows: their classifications and some problems of application to natural flows and deposits. In: Doyle, L.J., Pilkey, O.H. (Eds.), Geology of Continental Slopes. Spec. Publ. - Soc. Econ. Paleontol. Mineral., vol. 27, pp. 75– 82.

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Marr, J. G., Harff, P. A., Shanmugam, G., & Parker, G. (2001). Experiments on subaqueous sandy gravity flows: the role of clay and water content in flow dynamics and depositional structures. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113, 1377–1386.

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Mohrig, D., Elverhøi, A., & Parker, G. (1999). Experiments on the relative mobility of muddy subaqueous and subaerial debris flows, and their capacity to remobilize antecedent deposits. Marine Geology, 154, 117–129.

Mohrig, D., and Marr, J.G., 2003, Constraining the efficiency of turbidity current generation from submarine debris flows and slides using laboratory experiments. Marine and Petroleum Geology 20 (2003) 883–899.

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Nemec, W. (1990) Aspects of sediment movement on steep delta slopes. In: Coarse grained deltas (Eds. A. Colella and D.B. Prior). Spec Publ. int. Ass. Sediment. 10, 29-74.

Nemec, W., and Steel, R.J., 1984, Alluvial and coastal conglomerates: Their significant features and some comments on gravelly mass-flow deposits. In: Koster, E.H. and Steel, R.J. (eds.), Sedimentology of gravels and conglomerates. Candian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 10, p. 1-31.

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Russell, H. A. J. & Arnott, R. W. C., 2003, Hydraulic-jump and hyperconcentrated-flow deposits of a glacigenic subaqueous fan: oak ridges moraine, southern Ontario, Canada. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 73(6): 887-905.

Shanmugam, G., 1996: High-density turbidity currents: are they sandy debris flows? Journal of Sedimentary Research 66, 1, 2-10.

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Takahashi, T. (2001). Mechanics and simulation of snow avalanches, pyroclastic flows and debris flow. In B. McCaffrey, B. Kneller, & J. Peakall (Eds.), Particulate gravity currents (pp. 11–43). IAS special publication no. 31, Oxford: Blackwell.

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Weirich, F.H., 1988. Field evidence for hydraulic jumps in subaqueous sediment gravity flows. Nature 332, 626– 629.



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