San Lucas Canyon

San Lucas Canyon is a submarine canyon off Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur. The canyon is home to some spectacular submarine phenomena, namely the "rivers of sand" and sandfalls. These were first observed in 1959 by an expedition led by D. F. Shepard and including Conrad Limbaugh, James Steward, and Wheeler J. North.[1] These features were documented by Robert F. Dill (1964) and dived, filmed and made famous by Jacques Cousteau.[2][3][4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Limbaugh, C., North, W. and Steward, J., (1961). Rivers of Sand (Underwater motion-picture report of submarine sand movement). Dept. of Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of Calif., San Diego, La Jolla, California
  2. ↑ Dill, Robert F. (1964) Features in the Heads of Submarine Canyons: Narrative of Underwater Film pp. 101-104 in: L. M. J. U. Van Straaten (Editor), Deltaic and Shallow Marine Deposits, Elsevier Science ISBN 978-0444533128
  3. ↑ Ocean Industry, Vol. 6 No. 4 1971
  4. ↑ Foster, Jeanette (1995) Changes at the Cape, Sports Diver, November/December pp. 60-65.
  5. ↑ Editor (1971) Information from abroad. Mahasagar (bulletin of the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India), Volume 4, Jan. See p43-44 (Available at: ). (Date accessed: 29 Mar. 2013)
  6. ↑ Carter, R.M. (1975) A Discussion and Classification of Subaqueous Mass-Transport with Particular Application to Grain Flow, Slurry-Flow, and Fluxoturbidites, Earth-Science Reviews, 11, 145-177

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