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Theoretical and laboratory results indicate that bottom velocities within shoaling internal gravity waves intensify upslope approximately inversely proportional to the water depth. The elevated velocities (and bottom stresses) caused by shoaling and, possibly, breaking internal waves might explain the generation and maintenance of near-bottom nepheloid zones and attached turbid plumes that have been observed over certain continental shelves and slopes. This process is proposed as an explanation of zones of relatively low transmissibility that emanate from the upper continental slope near Newport submarine canyon off southern California.
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Cacchione, D.A., Drake, D.E. Nepheloid layers and internal waves over continental shelves and slopes. Geo-Marine Letters 6, 147–152 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02238085
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