out longstanding research on gravity currents and issued a multitude of papers on the subject. He published an article in 1982 for Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics which summarizes the state of research in the domain of gravity currents at the time. Simpson also published a more detailed book on the topic.

In nature and the built environment

Gravity currents are capable of transporting material across large horizontal distances. For example, turbidity currents on the

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