Salado-Vinorama submarine slide and turbidity current off the southeast tip of Baja California ( Mexico).

Abstract

Site 474 (water depth 3023m) is on oceanic crust SE of the tip of Baja California. The crust is overlain by about 500m of diatomaceous mud and mudstone turbidites. We believe this sequence (of events) comprised a slow-moving flow of coarse clastic debris from canyon source to upper mid-fan, widespread failure of over-pressured impermeable muds of the mid-fan, and a resulting fluid mixed- debris flow and turbidity current that rapidly displaced most of the combined sediments to their present position. Turbidity currents generated with the debris flow followed and may have transported sediments over a wide area. -from Authors