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Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins
Although the global flux of sediment and carbon from land to the coastal ocean is well known, the volume of material that reaches the deep ocean—the ultimate sink—and the mechanisms by which it is transferred are poorly documented. Using a globally unique data set of repeat seafloor measurements and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5851666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29546245 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar3748 |
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author | Mountjoy, Joshu J. Howarth, Jamie D. Orpin, Alan R. Barnes, Philip M. Bowden, David A. Rowden, Ashley A. Schimel, Alexandre C. G. Holden, Caroline Horgan, Huw J. Nodder, Scott D. Patton, Jason R. Lamarche, Geoffroy Gerstenberger, Matthew Micallef, Aaron Pallentin, Arne Kane, Tim |
author_facet | Mountjoy, Joshu J. Howarth, Jamie D. Orpin, Alan R. Barnes, Philip M. Bowden, David A. Rowden, Ashley A. Schimel, Alexandre C. G. Holden, Caroline Horgan, Huw J. Nodder, Scott D. Patton, Jason R. Lamarche, Geoffroy Gerstenberger, Matthew Micallef, Aaron Pallentin, Arne Kane, Tim |
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description | Although the global flux of sediment and carbon from land to the coastal ocean is well known, the volume of material that reaches the deep ocean—the ultimate sink—and the mechanisms by which it is transferred are poorly documented. Using a globally unique data set of repeat seafloor measurements and samples, we show that the moment magnitude (M(w)) 7.8 November 2016 Kaikōura earthquake (New Zealand) triggered widespread landslides in a submarine canyon, causing a powerful “canyon flushing” event and turbidity current that traveled >680 km along one of the world’s longest deep-sea channels. These observations provide the first quantification of seafloor landscape change and large-scale sediment transport associated with an earthquake-triggered full canyon flushing event. The calculated interevent time of ~140 years indicates a canyon incision rate of 40 mm year(−1), substantially higher than that of most terrestrial rivers, while synchronously transferring large volumes of sediment [850 metric megatons (Mt)] and organic carbon (7 Mt) to the deep ocean. These observations demonstrate that earthquake-triggered canyon flushing is a primary driver of submarine canyon development and material transfer from active continental margins to the deep ocean. |
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spelling | pubmed-58516662018-03-15 Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins Mountjoy, Joshu J. Howarth, Jamie D. Orpin, Alan R. Barnes, Philip M. Bowden, David A. Rowden, Ashley A. Schimel, Alexandre C. G. Holden, Caroline Horgan, Huw J. Nodder, Scott D. Patton, Jason R. Lamarche, Geoffroy Gerstenberger, Matthew Micallef, Aaron Pallentin, Arne Kane, Tim Sci Adv Research Articles Although the global flux of sediment and carbon from land to the coastal ocean is well known, the volume of material that reaches the deep ocean—the ultimate sink—and the mechanisms by which it is transferred are poorly documented. Using a globally unique data set of repeat seafloor measurements and samples, we show that the moment magnitude (M(w)) 7.8 November 2016 Kaikōura earthquake (New Zealand) triggered widespread landslides in a submarine canyon, causing a powerful “canyon flushing” event and turbidity current that traveled >680 km along one of the world’s longest deep-sea channels. These observations provide the first quantification of seafloor landscape change and large-scale sediment transport associated with an earthquake-triggered full canyon flushing event. The calculated interevent time of ~140 years indicates a canyon incision rate of 40 mm year(−1), substantially higher than that of most terrestrial rivers, while synchronously transferring large volumes of sediment [850 metric megatons (Mt)] and organic carbon (7 Mt) to the deep ocean. These observations demonstrate that earthquake-triggered canyon flushing is a primary driver of submarine canyon development and material transfer from active continental margins to the deep ocean. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2018-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5851666/ /pubmed/29546245 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar3748 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Mountjoy, Joshu J. Howarth, Jamie D. Orpin, Alan R. Barnes, Philip M. Bowden, David A. Rowden, Ashley A. Schimel, Alexandre C. G. Holden, Caroline Horgan, Huw J. Nodder, Scott D. Patton, Jason R. Lamarche, Geoffroy Gerstenberger, Matthew Micallef, Aaron Pallentin, Arne Kane, Tim Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins |
title | Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins |
title_full | Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins |
title_fullStr | Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins |
title_full_unstemmed | Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins |
title_short | Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins |
title_sort | earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5851666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29546245 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar3748 |
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