Search Results - "Prior, D. B"

Geometry and significance of stacked gullies on the northern California slope by Field, M.E, Gardner, J.V, Prior, D.B

“…Recent geophysical surveys off northern California reveal patterns of gullies on the sea floor and preserved within continental-slope deposits that represent…”
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Storm wave reactivation of a submarine landslide by Prior, D. B, Suhayda, J. N, Lu, N.-Z, Bornhold, B. D, Keller, G. H, Wiseman, W. J, Wright, L. D, Yang, Z.-S

“…Using bottom-deployed pressure sensors, tiltmeters and accelerometers, data was collected on sea-floor landslide reactivation involving sediment collapse…”
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Marine dispersal and deposition of Yellow River silts by gravity-driven underflows by Wright, L. D, Wiseman, W. J, Bornhold, B. D, Prior, D. B, Suhayda, J. N, Keller, G. H, Yang, Z.-S, Fan, Y. B

“…Field measurements of the processes of dispersion of concentrated suspended silts over the active delta front of the Yellow River in China show that…”
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Sea floor engineering geomorphology: recent achievements and future directions by Prior, David B, Hooper, James R

“…New mapping technology is providing perspectives of the sea floor “as if there were no ocean”, revealing that ocean floors exhibit a wide variety of relief,…”
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Mass Wasting on Continental Margins by Coleman, J M, Prior, D B

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Turbidity Current Activity in a British Columbia Fjord by Prior, David B., Bornhold, Brian D., Wiseman, William J., Lowe, Donald R.

“…A year-long monitoring program within an elongated channel-fan system in Bute Inlet of British Columbia, Canada, detected active sand-transporting turbidity…”
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Depositional Characteristics of a Submarine Debris Flow by Prior, D. B., Bornhold, B. D., Johns, M. W.

“…An example of a recently active delta-front fjord landslide has been extensively studied using side-scan sonar, subbottom profiler, piston coring, and…”
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Humboldt Slide — a large shear-dominated retrogressive slope failure by Gardner, James V, Prior, David B, Field, Michael E

“…Humboldt Slide is a large, complex slide zone located on the northern California continental margin. Its three-dimensional architecture has been imaged by a…”
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Late glacial and post‐glacial shorelines in North‐East Antrim by Prior, D. B.

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A mudslide on the Antrim Coast, 24th November 1974 by Prior, D. B.

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Sedimentary framework of the modern Huanghe (Yellow River) delta by Bornhold, B. D., Yang, Z. -S., Keller, G. H., Prior, D. B., Wiseman, W. J., Wang, Q., Wright, L. D., Xu, W. D., Zhuang, Z. Y.

“…The geometry, stratigraphy, and structure of recently deposited Huanghe (Yellow River) Delta sediments were examined by high resolution subbottom profiles and…”
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Sediment thixotropy and submarine mass movement, Huanghe Delta, China by LU, N. Z, SUHAYDA, J. N, PRIOR, D. B, BORNHOLD, B. D, KELLER, G. H, WISEMAN, W. J, WRIGHT, L. D, YANG, Z. S

“…Laboratory analysis of clayey silt from the offshore Huanghe Delta, Shandong Prov., People's Republic of China, reveals thixotropic behavior. Fall cone tests…”
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Hyperpycnal plumes and plume fronts over the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta front by Wright, L. D., Yang, Z. -S., Bornhold, B. D., Keller, G. H., Prior, D. B., Wiseman, W. J.

“…The Huanghe (Yellow River) discharges extremely high suspended sediment concentrations (25 to 220 g/I) which favor sustained hyperpycnal plumes (underflows)…”
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Antiquity of the Continental Slope along the Middle-Atlantic Margin of the United States by Prior, D. B., Coleman, J. M., Doyle, E. H.

“…A detailed high-resolution geophysical study of part of the continental slope along the mid-Atlantic margin of the United States indicates that it is an…”
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Submarine chutes on the slopes of fjord deltas by Prior, David B, Wiseman, Wm J, Bryant, W. R

“…The first side-scan sonograph images of submarine landslide chutes from arctic fjords presented here indicate that submarine slopes of fjord head deltas are…”
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Sediment blocks in the sea floor in British Columbia fjords by BORNHOLD, B. D, PRIOR, D. B

“…In the deepest parts of Bute and Knight inlets, British Columbia, unusual blocky mounds of sediment rise abruptly from the otherwise smooth sea floor. The…”
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Landslides Near Larne, co. Antrim, 15–16th August 1970 by Prior, D. B., Douglas, G. R.

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Flooding in Belfast by Prior, D. B., Betts, N. L.

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Sediment dynamics of the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta and neighboring gulf of Bohai, People's Republic of China: Project overview by Keller, G. H., Prior, D. B.

“…The first of three field programs over a 3-year period, to investigate the sediments and dynamic processes associated with the subaqueous Huanghe (Yellow…”
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Sediment transport on subaqueous fan delta slopes, Britannia Beach, British Columbia by PRIOR, D. B, BORNHOLD, B. D

“…A high-resolution acoustic survey over a fjord side fan delta revealed distinctive bottom features resulting from slope instability processes. Delta-front…”
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