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Detrainment and Settling of Sediment in Turbidity Currents : = A Study to Inform Deep Seabed Mining.

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Title/Author:	Detrainment and Settling of Sediment in Turbidity Currents :/
Reminder of title:	A Study to Inform Deep Seabed Mining.
Author:	Cathcart, Kelsey O'Brien.
Description:	1 online resource (102 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International85-10.
Subject:	Mechanical engineering. -
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ISBN:	9798381956757

Detrainment and Settling of Sediment in Turbidity Currents : = A Study to Inform Deep Seabed Mining.
Cathcart, Kelsey O'Brien.

Detrainment and Settling of Sediment in Turbidity Currents :A Study to Inform Deep Seabed Mining. - 1 online resource (102 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Deep-sea mining for high demand minerals has recently been a topic of global conversation in relation to potential monetary value, geopolitical cooperation, and environmental impact. The governing body of the deep-ocean, the International Seabed Authority (ISA), has simultaneously been attempting to protect the deep-sea from ruin by potentially harmful practices while also seeking to approve mining practices for mineral extraction from the deep-ocean for several years. Understanding there is much to learn about not only the deep-ocean but how to build best practices for mining the deep-sea has led to several deep-ocean research projects to inform researchers, and in turn the ISA, on how to do so in a manner that leaves the smallest human footprint on this vast ecosystem. Through both exploratory deep-ocean and laboratory research projects it has become apparent that the creation, and subsequent traveling, of turbidity currents across the seabed as a result of deep-sea mining will lead to impacts on a scale that is not yet entirely understood. Building on decades of studies on gravity currents (both related and unrelated to deep-sea mining) the focus of this thesis and requisite experimentation focuses on not the head of the gravity current but rather the tail end of the current and observing the detrainment and settling that occurs after the gravity current has been created (or released). The study of how these particles settle will inform the deep-sea mining feld and the ISA on the potential environmental impact of this new practice and how to best move forward with potential deep-seabed exploitation following science informed practices and regulations.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798381956757Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Mechanical engineering.
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