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PRONUNCIATION OF TURBIDITY CURRENT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TURBIDITY CURRENT

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Turbidity current is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TURBIDITY CURRENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Turbidity current

A turbidity current is a current of rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope through water, or another fluid. The current moves because it has a higher density than the fluid through which it flows—the driving force of a turbidity current derives from its sediment, which renders the turbid water denser than the clear water above. The deposit of a turbidity current is called a turbidite. Turbidity currents are an example of density or gravity currents, which include: oceanic fronts, avalanches, lahars, pyroclastic flows and lava flows. Seafloor turbidity currents are commonly used to describe underwater currents in lakes and oceans, which are usually triggered by earthquakes, slumping and sediment-laden rivers. They are characterized by a well-defined front, also known as head, followed by a layer known as the body of the current. Turbidity currents are characteristic of areas where there is seismic instability and an underwater slope, especially submarine trench slopes of convergent plate margins, continental slopes and submarine canyons of passive margins.

Definition of turbidity current in the English dictionary

The definition of turbidity current in the dictionary is a swirling mass of water and suspended material stirred up by a tsunami, a storm, a river in flood, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TURBIDITY CURRENT

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WORDS THAT END LIKE TURBIDITY CURRENT

abhorrent
air current
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direct current
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Synonyms and antonyms of turbidity current in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «turbidity current» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TURBIDITY CURRENT

Find out the translation of turbidity current to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of turbidity current from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «turbidity current» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

浊流
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

corriente de turbidez
570 millions of speakers

English

turbidity current
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मैलापन वर्तमान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التعكر الحالية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мутность тока
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

corrente de turbidez
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আবর্জনা বর্তমান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

courant de turbidité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kekeruhan semasa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Trübestrom
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

混濁流
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

탁도 현재
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kekuwatan saiki
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

độ đục hiện tại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குழப்பநிலை தற்போதைய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टर्बाबटी चालू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bulanıklık akımı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

corrente di torbidità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prąd mętność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

каламутність струму
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

curent de turbiditate
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ρεύμα θολότητας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

troebelheid huidige
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

grumlighet nuvarande
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

turbiditet strøm
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TURBIDITY CURRENT»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TURBIDITY CURRENT»

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Fine-Grained Turbidite Systems: AAPG Memoir 72
Relationship to the Turbidity Current Model The debris flow model has been used to demonstrate the effects of flow weight, fluid pressure, and friction on the behavior of both a debris flow and a turbidity current. The same general results can ...
Arnold H. Bouma, Charles Gomer Stone, 2000
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Earth Surface Processes, Landforms and Sediment Deposits
These turbulent eddies cause mixing of the turbidity current with the ambient fluid . Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbidity currents is capable of describing many of these features of fluid motion (Figure 8.9D); see Necker et al.(2005).
John Bridge, Robert Demicco, 2008
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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
used the term "turbidity current" for these sediment-laden density currents. Kuenen, in 1948, published a paper on further experiments, dealing with the possible existence of turbidity currents of high density. His experimentation was still ...
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Advanced Drug Design And Development: A Medicinal Chemistry ...
At the field scale however, turbidity currents are more likely to be erosional and the predicted results can be quite sensitive to the entrainment relations used in the model. Here, the four-equation model of turbidity current is utilized to revisit the ...
P N Kourounakis, 1994
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Hydraulics of Dams and River Structures: Proceedings of the ...
In order to illustrate the unsteady turbidity current, the sediment concentrations are represented in Figure 4 with time steps of 20 sec, whereas the lines of equivalent concentration have a difference of density of 0. 1 g/1. The envelope of the ...
Farhad Yazdandoost, Jalal Attari, 2004
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Glacial Marine Sedimentation: Paleoclimatic Significance
The remaining turbidity current travels beyond the site of deposition (see LA IV). Though partial Bouma sequences occur, the sandy Ta division is the most dominant facies. This dominance is commonly reported from the channelized parts of ...
John B. Anderson, Gail Mowry Ashley, 1991
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Stratigraphic Systems: Origin and Application
The turbidity current hypothesis was developed to explain all of these attributes. The mechanics of turbidity current flow was determined by laboratory experiment (Middleton and Hampton, 1973; Fig. 11.76). These studies provided the causal ...
Glenn S. Visher, 1999
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Gravity Currents: In the Environment and the Laboratory
16.3 Initiation of turbidity currents The problem of how a turbidity current is initiated, for example from a muddy slump on a slope at the sea bed, is not a simple one. The transformation is a complicated problem involving both soil and fluid ...
John E. Simpson, 1999
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Formation and Applications of the Sedimentary Record in Arc ...
Waves of turbidity-current origin are created by numerous episodic events preferentially depositing sediment on the upstream flank of the waves in antidune fashion when the flow is in the Froude number regime of ~0.5–1.9 (Hand, 1974; ...
Amy E. Draut, Peter D. Clift, David W. Scholl, 2008
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Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
The deposit of a turbidity current is a turbidite. The sediment mixture may contain gravel, sand and mud in concentrations as little as a few parts per thousand or up to 10% by weight: at the high concentrations the flows may not be turbulent and ...
Gary Nichols, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TURBIDITY CURRENT»

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When Freshwater Hits The Ocean, It Creates A Murky Submarine River
When denser river water flows into the ocean, it creeps along the bottom churning up sediments to create a turbidity current. For the first time, researchers caught ... «io9, Apr 15»
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Deep-sea robot, caught in underwater avalanche, yields new …
The floors of many submarine canyons are periodically scoured by fast-moving underwater avalanches known as "turbidity currents." In 2013, one of MBARI's ... «Phys.Org, Mar 15»
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The 1929 Grand Banks earthquake
Research of this event was the first proof of the existence of turbidity currents and their power. The ocean liner RMS Olympic happened to be passing over the ... «Maritime Professional, Mar 15»
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ROV gets caught in turbidity current, lives to tell the tale.
Turbidity currents are ridiculously fast, bottom-trapped currents that flow down steep ocean slopes. They are turbulent: the currents inside them are a mess of ... «Deep-Sea News, Jan 15»
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Smilin' Stone and a Super-Sweet Rip-Up Clast
This is a classic section of a turbidite. These are basically the result of undersea landslides, called turbidity currents, which can be caused by a variety of things. «Scientific American, Nov 14»
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Tiny, Ancient Crustacean Preserved in Fool's Gold, Legs, Eggs and All
It was a turbidity current -- an underwater landslide. It swept swiftly down like an avalanche, suffocating and burying everything in its path. It wasn't a very happy ... «Scientific American, Mar 14»
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An alternative: Deep-sea tailings placement
If DSTP methodology is engineered correctly, tailings slurry should form a turbidity current which flows coherently, with minimal dispersion, until it reaches the ... «Australian Mining, May 13»
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Dude, what's wrong with my Internet speed?
These thick optic fibre cables are sometimes disrupted due to natural phenomena, such as earthquakes and extreme turbidity current, or by coming in contact ... «The Hindu, Mar 13»
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A Lonely Tree Far From Home Brings New Life to the Ocean Deep …
Maybe the flooding caused a massive turbidity current, an underwater landslide, ... Currents are sluggish in the inches close to the seafloor as they're slowed by ... «Deep-Sea News, Apr 12»
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Rolling in the deep
Perhaps most extraordinarily, it is now known that it wasn't the earthquake itself that caused the tsunami, but the turbidity current. So much material was thrown ... «The Independent News, May 11»

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