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Box with sediment and water mixture showing turbidity current

5.7 How do we know how to interpret unseen turbidity currents?

Experiement to show graded bedding in 1950.

image of a device to produce turbidity

Kuenen's 1950 experiment produced the graded bedding below. We now know that events such as floods or earthquakes can trigger submarine landslides, causing turbidity currents.

Fig 5.21