Source-to-sink sedimentary systems and global carbon burial: A river runs through it

EL Leithold, NE Blair, KW Wegmann - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Source to sink sedimentary systems are important settings of carbon cycling, serving as sites
of carbon transfer between terrestrial and marine reservoirs, and as the primary locations for …

Genesis and character of thin-bedded turbidites associated with submarine channels

LAS Hansen, RHT Callow, IA Kane, F Gamberi… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2015 - Elsevier
Submarine channel-related thin-bedded turbidites are deposited in environments such as
external levees, internal levees, depositional terraces and at times of channel abandonment …

[PDF][PDF] Hyperpycnal flows and hyperpycnites: Origin and distinctive characteristics

C Zavala, SX Pan - Lithologic Reservoirs, 2018 - researchgate.net
Growing evidence suggests that land generated sediment gravity flows are the most
important source of clastic sediments into marine and lacustrine sedimentary basins. These …

Rare earth elements and neodymium isotopes in sedimentary organic matter

N Freslon, G Bayon, S Toucanne, S Bermell… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
We report rare earth element (REE) and neodymium (Nd) isotope data for the organic
fraction of sediments collected from various depositional environments, ie rivers (n= 25) …

[HTML][HTML] Marine communities on oil platforms in Gabon, West Africa: high biodiversity oases in a low biodiversity environment

AM Friedlander, E Ballesteros, M Fay, E Sala - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The marine biodiversity of Gabon, West Africa has not been well studied and is largely
unknown. Our examination of marine communities associated with oil platforms in Gabon is …

[PDF][PDF] The importance of plant remains as diagnostic criteria for the recognition of ancient hyperpycnites

C Zavala, M Arcuri, L Blanco Valiente - Revue de Paléobiologie, 2012 - academia.edu
One of the greatest advances in sedimentology during the twentieth century was the
recognition of turbidites by CARLO MIGLIORINI (1949). In its original conception, turbidites …

Guidelines for Rock–Eval analysis of recent marine sediments

F Baudin, JR Disnar, A Aboussou, F Savignac - Organic Geochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Rock–Eval pyrolysis, a widely used petroleum screening technique developed primarily for
ancient sedimentary rocks and kerogens, has been increasingly applied to the …

Deep-sea fans

A Uchman, A Wetzel - Developments in Sedimentology, 2012 - Elsevier
Turbiditic depositional systems are characterized by diverse, pre-and post-depositional trace
fossils dominated by pascichnia, fodinichnia, agrichnia, and chemichnia. They belong …

Morphology, structure, composition and build-up processes of the active channel-mouth lobe complex of the Congo deep-sea fan with inputs from remotely operated …

B Dennielou, L Droz, N Babonneau, C Jacq… - Deep Sea Research …, 2017 - Elsevier
The detailed structure and composition of turbiditic channel-mouth lobes is still largely
unknown because they commonly lie at abyssal water depths, are very thin and are …

[HTML][HTML] Rapidly-migrating and internally-generated knickpoints can control submarine channel evolution

MS Heijnen, MA Clare, MJB Cartigny, PJ Talling… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Submarine channels are the primary conduits for terrestrial sediment, organic carbon, and
pollutant transport to the deep sea. Submarine channels are far more difficult to monitor than …