Fig. 4: Near-bed current velocities (blue solid line; ms−1) and surface tidal velocities25 (orange dashed line; ms−1) for ten days prior to and five days after the six major turbidity currents recorded in the Whittard Canyon. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Near-bed current velocities (blue solid line; ms−1) and surface tidal velocities25 (orange dashed line; ms−1) for ten days prior to and five days after the six major turbidity currents recorded in the Whittard Canyon.

From: Challenging the highstand-dormant paradigm for land-detached submarine canyons

Fig. 4

No consistent link can be made to the modelled surface tide as turbidity current occurrence is not correlated with any particular phase of the semidiurnal surface tidal cycle (i.e. down-canyon or up-canyon tidal flow) or phase of the spring-neap cycle. Similarly, turbidity current occurrence is not correlated with direction or magnitude of measured near-bed flows (assumed to be dominated by the internal tide).

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