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Author : Best, J.L.; Kostaschuk, R.A.; Peakall, J.; Villard, P.V.; and Franklin, M.
Date : 2005.
Title : Whole flow field dynamics and velocity pulsing within natural sediment-laden underflows.
Publication : Geology
Issue : 33(10):
Page(s) : 765–768.



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Abstract

Sediment-laden density underflows are important agents of erosion and deposition and are especially significant in the management of human-made reservoirs, pollutant dispersal, and sediment deposition in the world's oceans. Quantification of continuous, sediment-laden underflows in Lillooet Lake, British Columbia, shows that the underflows descend along a distinct plunge line but, although the input from the source is constant, adopt a distinct pulsing in their velocity structure. Such velocity pulsing will produce temporally and spatially varying bed shear stresses, sediment erosion and/or deposition, and fluid mixing, and represents a central property of underflows that must be incorporated into models of density current behavior.

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