Fig. 1: Observations of near-bed currents offshore North Mozambique.
From: Highly variable deep-sea currents over tidal and seasonal timescales
a, Rose diagrams showing current direction as a percentage of total measurements from closest to seabed bin at each mooring (Supplementary Table 1). The arm colour divisions refers to abundance of recorded velocities as shown in c. b, Bathymetry (GEBCO, 2022) offshore East Africa showing location of study site and regional ocean circulation patterns. SEC, South Equatorial Current; SEMC, Southeast Madagascar Current. c, The legend for rose diagrams in a. d, E–W trending linear furrows from multi-beam backscatter (5 m bin size) oriented parallel to seafloor currents proximal to gullies most probably reflect changes in grain size. e, Furrows and scours at the seabed (0.6 m bin size, remotely operated vehicle multi-beam) indicate the dominance of north-flowing bottom currents.
