This fits with what the team see in the rate of sediment accumulation in the deep sea — large flood events transporting more sediment, and moving it further. (sciencedaily.com)
Biogenic budgets of particle rain, benthic remineralization and sediment accumulation in the equatorial Pacific. (elementascience.org)
The gradually increasing rate of sediment accumulation possibly stems from the long time needed for the material to hopscotch its way across the continent, being dumped in one spot and then remobilized by erosion later, says Carina Hoorn, a geologist at the University of Amsterdam. (sciencemag.org)