دیکشنری تخصصی مهندسی نفت - نسخه آنلاین

n: a dense mass of sediment-laden water that flows down the continental slope, typically through a submarine canyon. It carries clay, silt, and gravel quickly and turbulently downslope in a narrow tongue. When it reaches the more gradual slope of the continental rise, its energy is dissipated rapidly by friction, and the sediments settle out, largest particles first, to form a thick graded bed called a turbidite.