Fine-grained sediments : deep-water processes and facies / edited by D.A.V. Stow and D.J.W. Piper.

"This volume has been edited from the proceedings and discussion at an International Workshop on Fine-Grained Sediments held at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada in August 1982."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / D.A.V. Stow & D.J.W. Piper -- INTRODUCTION -- Deep-water fine-grained sediments: history, methodology and terminology / D.A.V. Stow & D.J.W. Piper -- PROCESSES -- A review of fine-grained sediment origins, characteristics, transport and deposition / D.S. Gorsline -- Erosion, transport and deposition of fine-grained marine sediments / I.N. McCave -- Methods and observations in the study of deep-sea suspended particulate matter / S.L. Eittreim -- Grain-size characteristics of turbidites / Kate Kranck -- TERRIGENOUS TURBIDITES AND ASSOCIATED FACIES -- Fine-grained sediments of the Zaire deep-sea fan, southern Atlantic Ocean / T.C.E. van Weering & J. van Iperen -- Sedimentary sequences on the north-west Mediterranean margin during the late Quaternary: a dynamic interpretation / A. Monaco & Y. Mear -- Sedimentology of the Halifax Formation, Nova Scotia: Lower Palaeozoic fine-grained turbidites / D.A.V. Stow, M. Alam & D.J.W. Piper -- Sedimentation in the southern Cape Verde Basin: regional observations by long-range sidescan sonar / R.B. Kidd & R.C. Searle -- Sedimentation in the southern Cape Verde Basin: seismic and sediment facies / G.A. Auffret, R. Le Suave, R. Kerbrat, B. Sichler, S. Roy, C. Laj & C. Muller -- Sedimentary processes on the west Hellenic Arc margin / H. Got -- Fine-grained turbidites and associated mass-flow deposits in the Ulleung (Tsushima) back-arc basin, East Sea (Sea of Japan) / S.K. Chough -- CARBONATE TURBIDITES AND ASSOCIATED FACIES -- Open-ocean, off-bank transport of fine-grained carbonate sediment in the northern Bahamas / K.C. Heath & H.T. Mullins -- Late Quaternary calcareous clayey-silty muds in the Obock trough (Gulf of Aden): hemipelagites or fine-grained turbidites? / J-C. Faugeres, M. Cremer, E. Gonthier, M. Noel & J. Poutiers -- Depositional model for calcilutites: Scaglia Rossa limestones, Umbro-Marchean Apennines / D.A.V. Stow, F.C. Wezel, D. Savelli, S.C.R. Rainey & G. Angell -- CONTOURITES -- North Atlantic contourites: an overview / D.A.V. Stow & J.A. Holbrook -- Contourite or turbidite? Magnetic fabric of fine-grained Quaternary sediments, Nova Scotia continental rise / A.N. Shor, D.V. Kent & R.D. Flood -- Contourite facies of the Faro Drift, Gulf of Cadiz / E.G. Gonthier, J-C. Faugeres & D.A.V. Stow -- The sediment texture of contourites in Lake Superior / J.D. Halfman & T.C. Johnson -- HEMIPELAGITES AND ASSOCIATED FACIES OF SLOPES AND SLOPE BASINS -- Facies and sequence analysis of Nova Scotian slope muds: turbidite vs. 'hemipelagic' deposition / P.R. Hill -- The role of canyons in late Quaternary deposition of the United States mid-Atlantic continental rise / B.A. McGregor, T.A. Nelsen, W.L. Stubblefield & G.F. Merrill -- A late Miocene and early Pliocene upper shelf-to-slope sequence of calcareous fine sediment from the Pacific margin of New Zealand / P.F. Ballance, M.R. Gregory, G.W. Gibson, G.C.H. Chaproniere, A.P. Kadar & T. Sameshima -- Facies, facies-association and sediment transport/deposition processes in a late Precambrian upper basin-slope/pro-delta, Finnmark, N. Norway / K.T. Pickering -- Continental source area contributions to fine-grained sediments on the Oregon and Washington continental slope / L.A. Krissek -- Basin model for hemipelagic sedimentation in a tectonically active continental margin: Santa Barbara Basin, California continental borderland / S.E. Thornton -- Studies of fine-grained sediment transport processes and products in the Californian continental borderland / D.S. Gorsline, R.L. Kolpack, H.A. Karl, D.E. Drake, P. Fleischer, S.E. Thornton, J.R. Schwalbach & C.E. Savrda -- Fine-grained sediments associated with fan lobes: Santa Paula Creek, California / R. Bourrouilh & D.S. Gorsline -- PELAGITES AND ORGANIC-RICH SEDIMENTS -- Origin of varve-type lamination, graded claystones and limestone-shale 'couplets' on the Lower Cretaceous of the western North Atlantic / A.H.F. Robertson -- Hemipelagic chalks in a clastic submarine fan sequence: Miocene SW Turkey / A.B. Hayward -- Source rock potential of Bahamian Trough carbonates / P.D. Crevello, J.W. Patton, T.W. Oesleby, W. Schlager & A. Droxler -- Hemipelagic deposits in a Miocene basin, California: toward a model of lithologic variation and sequence / C.M. Issacs -- Sapropels and organic-rich variants in the Mediterranean: sequence development and classification / George C. Anastasakis & Daniel Jean Stanley -- The sedimentology of the Swedish alum shales / A. Thickpenny -- Models for the deposition of Mesozoic-Cenozoic fine-grained organic-carbon-rich sediment in the deep sea / M.A. Arthur, W.E. Dean & D.A.V. Stow -- INTERNAL CHARACTERISTICS -- Plasticity and compaction characteristics of the Quaternary sediments penetrated on the Guatemalan Transect-DSDP Leg 67 / R.W. Faas -- Fabrics of muds and shales: an overview / C.F. Moon & C.W. Hurst -- Bioturbation in deep-sea fine-grained sediments: influence of sediment texture, turbidite frequency and rates of environmental change / A. Wetzel -- FACIES MODELS: SYNTHESIS -- Deep-water fine-grained sediments: facies models / D.A.V. Stow & D.J.W. Piper.

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