Nisbet, Euan G. and Piper, David J. W. (1998) Giant submarine landslides. Nature, 392 (6674).
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Submarine landslides can generate enormous turbidity currents that carry 500 cubic kilometres 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.
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