[HTML][HTML] A new classification system for mixed (turbidite-contourite) depositional systems: Examples, conceptual models and diagnostic criteria for modern and ancient …

S Rodrigues, FJ Hernández-Molina, M Fonnesu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Interactions between along-slope bottom currents and down-slope turbidity flows can create
a myriad of features and deposits. Despite numerous efforts to differentiate contourites from …

[HTML][HTML] Characterisation of weak layers, physical controls on their global distribution and their role in submarine landslide formation

R Gatter, MA Clare, J Kuhlmann, K Huhn - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Submarine landslides pose a hazard to coastal communities as they can generate powerful
tsunamis, and threaten critical offshore infrastructure such as seafloor cable networks that …

Hybrid turbidite-drift channel complexes: An integrated multiscale model

A Fuhrmann, IA Kane, MA Clare, RA Ferguson… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The interaction of deep-marine bottom currents with episodic, unsteady sediment gravity
flows affects global sediment transport, forms climate archives, and controls the evolution of …

[HTML][HTML] Channel-levee evolution in combined contour current–turbidity current flows from flume-tank experiments

E Miramontes, JT Eggenhuisen, RS Jacinto… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Turbidity currents and contour currents are common sedimentary and oceanographic
processes in deep-marine settings that affect continental margins worldwide. Their …

Contourite and mixed turbidite-contourite systems in the Mozambique Channel (SW Indian Ocean): link between geometry, sediment characteristics and modelled …

E Miramontes, A Thiéblemont, N Babonneau… - Marine Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Oceanic currents can profoundly reshape the seafloor and even modify the characteristics of
turbidite systems. Multiple erosional and depositional features directly formed by bottom …

Contourites and bottom current reworked sands: Bed facies model and implications

S De Castro, FJ Hernández-Molina… - Marine Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
The differentiation of pure turbidites and contourites from mixed deposits—as the bottom
current reworked sands (BCRS)—in sedimentary cores and outcrops from the modern or …

Contourite characterization and its discrimination from other deep‐water deposits in the Gulf of Cadiz contourite depositional system

S De Castro, FJ Hernández‐Molina… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite numerous efforts to properly differentiate between contourites and other deep‐water
deposits in cores and outcrops, reliable diagnostic criteria are still lacking. The co …

Sediment waves control origins of submarine canyons

X Wang, B Kneller, Q Sun - Geology, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Submarine canyons commonly occur on virtually all continental slopes. Their varied origins
are widely studied but still debatable. Eastward (along-slope)–migrating submarine …

Diagnostic criteria using microfacies for calcareous contourites, turbidites and pelagites in the Eocene–Miocene slope succession, southern Cyprus

H Hüneke, FJ Hernández‐Molina… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Interbedded contourites, turbidites and pelagites are commonplace in many deep‐water
slope environments. However, the distinction between these different facies remains a …

[HTML][HTML] A Late Cretaceous mixed (turbidite-contourite) system along the Argentine Margin: Paleoceanographic and conceptual implications

S Rodrigues, FJ Hernández-Molina, A Kirby - Marine and Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Cretaceous record offshore Argentina comprises an extensive
hybrid/mixed (turbidite-contourite) depositional system over 280,000 km 2. This offers a key …