Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

It's impossible to be in the dark about the scourge of microplastics, but new light has been shone on how they end up in the deep sea: underwater avalanches.

Scientists have discovered that powerful underwater avalanches are sweeping huge amounts of microplastics into the deep sea, ...

Even in the Atacama Trench, a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Chile and Peru that plunges more than 7,000 meters beneath the ...

Valuable minerals have recently been found in Japan’s deep sea. Robust environmental monitoring must accompany an increase in exploration, say Japanese researchers. The International Seabed ...

They receive terrigenous sediment from hinterland-to-deep sea sediment-routing systems, which include submarine canyon-channel transfer zones that gash Earth's continental margins. Deposits of ...

There are subsea canyons far bigger than the Grand Canyon.The Grand Canyon is 6,093 feet (1,857 meters) deep, but the Zhemchug ...