The discovery of turbidites represents perhaps the major genuine advance of sedimentology
during the twentieth century. Turbidites are the deposits of turbidity currents and were …

Olistostromes (sedimentary mélanges) represent the products of ancient submarine mass
transport processes. We present a comparative analysis of the occurrences and internal …

Authoritative, accessible, and updated introduction to sedimentary rocks for undergraduate
students Sedimentary Petrology provides readers with a concise account of sedimentary …

The marine fill of ancient foreland basins is primarily recorded by depositional systems
consisting of facies and facies associations deposited by a variety of sediment gravity flows …

A hyperpycnal flow forms when a relatively dense land-derived gravity flow enters into a
marine or lacustrine water reservoir. As a consequence of its excess of density, the incoming …

Sinuous deep-water channels display a wide range of geometries and internal architectures.
Most modern examples have been documented from large passive-margin fans, supplied by …

During the past 50 years, the turbidite paradigm has promoted many myths related to deep-
water turbidite deposition. John E. Sanders (1926–1999), a pioneering process …

The concept of turbidite has evolved so much since its original definition by Kuenen and
Migliorini in 1950–ie the deposit of turbidity currents exemplified by the sandy flysch …

Facies analysis performed for more than 10 yr in several lacustrine and marine basins
allowed the distillation of a genetic and predictive facies tract of general application to the …

Hyperpycnal flows originate when sediment-laden fluvial discharges enter standing, lower-
density water. Because of their excess density, the flows plunge near the river mouth and …