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Density Currents in connection with the problem of Submarine Canyons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Ph. H. Kuenen
Ph. H. Kuenen
Affiliation:
Groningen, Holland.
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The investigation of submarine canyons has been actively pursued in the United States of latter years, principally due to the activities of F. P. Shepard. The Coast and Geodetic Survey has mapped a large number of these interesting chasms, both along the Atlantic and Pacific continental slopes, by sonic soundings; Shepard himself added data by soundings and dredgings along the Californian coast; Stetson performed current measurements, dredgings, and sampling in the canyons off the east coast. The number of data is steadily increasing in the United States, and it is to be hoped other nations will also become active, for much still remains to be learned before a comprehensive view of the many-sided problem can be obtained.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 75 , Issue 6 , June 1938 , pp. 241 - 249
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1938

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