Turbidity Flow
Turbidity Flow : A type of bottom current on continental slopes and rises caused when a sediment-covered submarine slope becomes structurally unstable and begins to collapse under its own weight or stirred into suspension in the overlying water. The sediment in suspension creates a water mass of higher density generating a current which flows downslope gaining speed. Turbidity currents flush out and erode submarine canyons, building up the flanks with natural levees and supply the sediments which fill the abysall plains
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