Submarine fans receive sediment through canyon-channel systems and are the largest detrital accumulations on Earth. Their general characteristics and developmental models are reviewed. Submarine ...

Submarine fans are accumulations of sediment deposited at the termini of land-to-deep-sea sediment-routing systems (Menard 1955) (Figure 1). At a given moment in time, sediment-routing systems ...

Deep below Monterey Bay lies one of the largest submarine canyons on the west coast of North America. Monterey Canyon has a topography that rivals the Grand Canyon, but its scale and grandeur ...