Turbidity Currents
http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~nonlin/turbidity/turbidity.html

The Experimental Nonlinear Physics Group, Department of Physics

This website provides information and photographs of current laboratory models of turbidity currents. Photographs include pictures of the flume and the movement of turbidity currents in that flume.

This description of a site outside SERC has not been vetted by SERC staff and may be incomplete or incorrect. If you have information we can use to flesh out or correct this record let us know.

Part of the Cutting Edge collection. The NAGT/DLESE On the Cutting Edge project helps geoscience faculty stay up-to-date with both geoscience research and teaching methods.

This resource is referenced here:

• Cutting Edge:Courses:Sedimentary Geology:Visualizations: Turbidite Development
• Cutting Edge:Courses:Sedimentary Geology:Visualizations: Gravity Flows

Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks:Clastics
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Sediments/Sedimentary Rocks: Clastics
Theme: Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Oceanography, Sedimentary Geology