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Nature 392, 329-330 (26 March 1998) | doi:10.1038/32765

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Giant submarine landslides

Euan G. Nisbet1 & David J. W. Piper2

Submarine landslides can generate enormous turbidity currents that carry 500 km3 or more of sediment down to the oceans' abyssal plains. The slides can cause tsunamis, and may release large amounts of methane to the air.

  1. Euan G. Nisbet is in the Department of Geology, Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, UK.
  2. David J. W. Piper is in the Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada B2Y 4A2.