[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 …

Nanpanjiang basin: A window on the tectonic development of south China during Triassic assembly of the southeastern and eastern Asia

L Duan, QR Meng, GL Wu, Z Yang, J Wang, R Zhan - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
As the largest siliciclastic sink in the South China block, the Triassic Nanpanjiang basin is
generally thought of as a foreland basin related to Indosinian collision between the South …

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 …

Automated multi‐well stratigraphic correlation and model building using relative geologic time

Z Sylvester - Basin Research, 2023 - earthdoc.org
Stratigraphic correlation of geophysical well logs is one of the most important—and most
time‐consuming—tasks that applied geoscientists perform on a daily basis. Using the …

Factors controlling the morphology and internal sediment architecture of moats and their associated contourite drifts

H Wilckens, T Schwenk, T Lüdmann, C Betzler… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The interaction of sedimentary systems with oceanographic processes in deep‐water
environments is not well understood yet, despite its importance for palaeoenvironmental …

Submarine channel mouth settings: processes, geomorphology, and deposits

DM Hodgson, J Peakall, KL Maier - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Observations from the modern seafloor that suggest turbidity currents tend to erode as they
lose channel-levee confinement, rather than decelerating and depositing their sediment …

Evolution of gas hydrate–bearing deep-water channel-levee system in abyssal Gulf of Mexico: Levee growth and deformation

M Santra, PB Flemings, E Scott… - AAPG …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Gas hydrate in the Green Canyon area (Block 955) in the northern Gulf of Mexico is hosted
by relatively clay-free silty levee deposits bounding a Pleistocene submarine channel …

Stratigraphic architecture and distribution patterns of submarine fan-reservoir elements: insights derived from the Pliocene and Pleistocene Bengal Fan

D Li, C Gong, D Ge, G Fan… - Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
D seismic data from the Bengal Fan along with spectral decomposition and RGB color
blending techniques display stratigraphic architectures and spatiotemporal distribution …

Meltwater sediment transport as the dominating process in mid-latitude trough mouth fan formation

B Bellwald, S Planke, LWM Becker… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Trough mouth fans comprise the largest sediment deposits along glaciated margins, and
record Pleistocene climate changes on a multi-decadal time scale. Here we present a model …

Interactions between deep-water gravity flows and active salt tectonics

ZA Cumberpatch, IA Kane… - Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Behavior of sediment gravity flows can be influenced by seafloor topography associated with
salt structures; this can modify the depositional architecture of deep-water sedimentary …