Sediment transport processes at the head of Halibut Canyon, eastern Canada margin: An interplay between internal tides and dense shelf-water cascading
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dig-icm-es-10261-780642020-12-03T07:54:53Z Sediment transport processes at the head of Halibut Canyon, eastern Canada margin: An interplay between internal tides and dense shelf-water cascading Puig, Pere Greenan, Blair J.W. Li, Michael Z. Prescott, Robert H. Piper, David J.W. Submarine canyon Sediment transport Internal tide Dense shelf water cascade Gravity flow 15 pages, 11 figures, 1 table To investigate the processes by which sediment is transported through a submarine canyon incised in a glaciated margin, the bottom boundary layer quadrapod RALPH was deployed at 276-m depth in the West Halibut Canyon (off Newfoundland) during winter 2008–2009. Two main sediment transport processes were identified throughout the deployment. Firstly, periodic increases of near-bottom suspended-sediment concentrations (SSC) were recorded associated with the up-canyon propagation of the semidiurnal internal tidal bore along the canyon axis, carrying fine sediment particles resuspended from deeper canyon regions. The recorded SSC peaks, lasting less than 1 h, were observed sporadically and were linked to bottom intensified up-canyon flows (~ 40 cm s− 1) concomitant with sharp drops in temperature. Secondly, sediment transport was also observed during events of intensified down-canyon current velocities that occurred during periods of sustained heat loss from surface waters, but were not associated with large storm waves. High-resolution velocity profiles throughout the water column during these events revealed that the highest current speeds (~ 1 m s− 1) were centered several meters above the sea floor and corresponded to the region of maximum velocities of a gravity flow. Such flows had associated low SSC and cold water temperatures and are interpreted as dense shelf water cascading events channelized along the canyon axis. Sediment transport during these events was largely restricted to bedload and saltation, producing winnowing of sands and fine sediments around larger gravel particles. Analysis of historical hydrographic data suggests that such gravity flows are not related to the formation of coastal dense waters advected towards the outer shelf that reached the canyon head. Rather, the dense shelf waters appear to be generated around the outer shelf, where convection during winter is able to reach the sea floor and generate a pool of near-bottom dense water that cascades into the canyon during one or two tidal cycles. A similar transport mechanism is likely to occur in other submarine canyons along the eastern Canadian margin, as well in other canyoned margins where winter convection can reach the shelf-edge This field experiment was funded by the Earth Science Sector Offshore Geoscience Program, and the Program of Energy Research and Development (PERD) through the Nearbed Wave and Current Forcing and Sediment Dynamics project. P. Puig also benefited from a travel grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education (Ref. PR2011-0538) to conduct this study at Bedford Institute of Oceanography. T. Milligan is specially acknowledged for facilitating access to the analyzed dataset. E. King provided consultation and background geological information for the selection of the deployment site. The authors would like to thank A. Robertson, M. Scotney and R. Boyce for their assistance in preparation, deployment and recovery of the instrumentation. This is Earth Sciences Sector contribution number 20120402 Peer reviewed 2013-06-13T08:39:45Z 2013-06-13T08:39:45Z 2013-07 artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 Marine Geology 341: 14-28 (2013) 0025-3227 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/78064 10.1016/j.margeo.2013.05.004 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2013.05.004 none Elsevier |
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Sediment transport processes at the head of Halibut Canyon, eastern Canada margin: An interplay between internal tides and dense shelf-water cascading |
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