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Kevin overlooking an experiment on
turbidity currents in the deepwater basin



Submarine channels offshore Borneo

Research Interests

Our research focuses on the transport of sediment from land through the ocean and into the stratigraphic record. Scales of interest range from the interaction of turbidity currents with channel bends over minutes to the construction and preservation of river deltas over millions of years. The sedimentary bodies that arise from these processes are home to millions of people, archives of past Earth conditions and reservoirs of natural resources. We examine the morphodynamics of these systems using a combination of remote sensing of subsurface sedimentary deposits (visualization and interpretation of seismic data), carefully designed laboratory experiments, field studies of modern and ancient sediment transport systems, and targeted numerical analysis and modeling.

Recent News

 
TSDS partners with Quantitative
Clastics Laboratory on approach
to analyze and visualize stratigraphy

 
Chen Wu gives two TSDS
presentations at The 2023 Fall
Meeting of the AGU in San Francisco

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