Atlas of Deep Water Environments: Architectural style in turbidite systems

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Architectural element analysis of turbidite systems, and selected topical problems for sand-prone deep-water systems....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Source area of sediments contributing to the ‘Grand Banks’ 1929 turbidity current....Pages 12-13
Continental slope and basin sedimentation adjacent to an ice-margin: a continuous sleeve-gun profile across the Labrador Slope, Rise and Basin....Pages 14-17
A continuous along-slope seismic profile from the Upper Labrador Slope....Pages 18-22
Canyon-filling debrite indicates that canyon erosion and large-scale mass movement off Georges Bank, USA, are unrelated processes....Pages 23-25
Mass wasting along the Hawaiian Ridge: giant debris avalanches....Pages 26-28
Late Quaternary turbidite systems in Lake Baikal, Russia....Pages 29-33
IZANAGI sidescan sonar and high-resolution multichannel seismic reflection line interpretation of Nankai accretionary prism and trench, offshore Japan....Pages 34-49
Deep marine slide and channel deposits from the Jurassic-Cretaceous Fossil Bluff Group, Alexander Island, Antarctica....Pages 50-55
Carbonate slope aprons in the Cambrian of North Greenland: geometry, stratal patterns and facies....Pages 56-62
Architecture and facies associations of Plio-Pleistocene trench-slope deposits, Burica Peninsula, Central America....Pages 63-66
Depression-fill within a forearc setting, Aptian-Turonian, Xigaze, Tibet....Pages 67-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Monterey Fan: channel and overbank morphology....Pages 74-79
Unique fan morphology in an entrenched thalweg channel on the Rhône Fan....Pages 80-83
The Almeria Canyon: a meandering channel system on an active margin, Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean....Pages 84-88
Geometry of the younger sediment bodies of the Indus Fan....Pages 89-93
Sequence stratigraphy of the Mississippi Fan (Late Miocene-Pleistocene), northern deep Gulf of Mexico....Pages 94-99
Indus Fan: multi-channel seismic reflection images of channel-levee-overbank complexes....Pages 100-104
Architectural elements and depositional processes of Amazon Deep-sea Fan imaged by long-range sidescan sonar (GLORIA), bathymetric swath-mapping (Sea Beam), high-resolution seismic and piston-core data....Pages 105-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Deep-sea fan valleys, channels, lobes and fringes of the Silurian Peary Land Group, North Greenland....Pages 124-138
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Detailed section across the Ainsa II Channel complex, south central Pyrenees, Spain....Pages 139-144
The Rapitán turbidite channel and its related eastern levee-overbank deposits, Eocene Hecho group, south-central Pyrenees, Spain....Pages 145-149
Submarine canyon and associated base-of-slope sheet system: the Eocene Charo-Arro system, south-central Pyrenees, Spain....Pages 150-156
Heterogeneity within a sand-rich submarine fan, Tabernas Basin, Spain....Pages 157-161
Erosional, depositional and post-depositional features of a turbidite channel-fill, Jurassic, Neuquen Basin, Argentina....Pages 162-166
Geometry and continuity of deep-water sandstones and siltstones, Brushy Canyon Formation (Permian) Delaware Mountains, Texas....Pages 167-183
The Caban Conglomerate and Ystrad Meurig Grits Formation — nested channels and lobe switching on a mud-dominated latest Ashgill to Llandovery slope-apron, Welsh Basin, UK....Pages 184-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Contrasting deep-sea depositional systems in the Bering Sea....Pages 196-202
Holocene sand body geometry, Hueneme Fan, California Borderland....Pages 203-206
Internal characteristics of sandbodies of the Ordovician Tourelle Formation, Quebec, Canada....Pages 207-211
Scour holes in a channel-lobe transition zone on the Rhône Cone....Pages 212-215
Large-scale mesotopographic bedforms from the Albian Black Flysch, northern Spain: characterization, setting and comparison with recent analogues....Pages 216-226
Sandstone architecture and facies from the Annot Basin of the Tertiary SW Alpine Foreland Basin, SE France....Pages 227-235
The Montagne de Chalufy turbidite onlap, Eocene-Oligocene turbidite sheet system, Hautes Provence, SE France....Pages 236-241
Sandbody geometries in an onlapping turbiditic basin-fill: Montagne de Chalufy, Alpes des Hautes Provence, SE France....Pages 242-243
Complex bedding geometries in proximal deposits of the Castelnuovo Member, Rocchetta Formation, Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy....Pages 244-249
Sheet-like and channelized sediment bodies in a Silurian turbidite system, Welsh Basin, UK....Pages 250-254
Architecture of turbidite sandstone bodies in a rift-lake setting, Gabon Basin, offshore Gabon....Pages 255-259
Angel Formation turbidites in the Wanaea field area, Dampier Sub-basin, North-West Shelf, Australia....Pages 260-266
Sheet-like turbidite system: the Kongsfjord Formation, Finnmark, North Norway....Pages 267-274
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Long-distance correlation of spillover turbidites on the western levee of the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel (NAMOC), Labrador Sea....Pages 276-281
Geometry of sandy deposits at the distal edge of the Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico....Pages 282-286
Sediment mass wasting in the Canary Basin....Pages 287-296
Computer enhanced GLORIA sidescan sonar images of the surface of the Mississippi Fan....Pages 297-299
Contessa and associated megaturbidites: long distance (120 × 25 km) correlation of individual beds in a Miocene foredeep....Pages 300-302
Long-distance correlation of sandy turbidites: a 2.5 km long cross-section of Marnoso-Arenacea, Santerno Valley, Northern Apennines....Pages 303-306
Bed-by-bed correlation of trench-plain turbidite sections, Campanian Zementmergel Formation, Rhenodanubian Flysch Zone of the East Alps....Pages 307-309
Foreland basin-floor turbidite system, Cloridorme Formation, Quebec, Canada: long-distance correlation in sheet turbidites....Pages 310-316
The Tanqua basin floor fans, Permian Ecca Group, Western Karoo Basin, South Africa....Pages 317-322
Lateral variations of distal lobe sandstones in the late Proterozoic Zerrissene turbidite complex, Damara Orogen, Namibia....Pages 323-329
Back Matter....Pages 331-334