Anmerkung: Front Cover -- Developments in Sedimentology, 60: Contourites -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Part 1 Contourite Research -- Chapter 1 Contourite Research: A Field in Full Development -- 1.1 Bottom Currents -- 1.2 Contourites -- 1.3 Drifts -- 1.4 Sedimentary Structures -- 1.5 Prospects -- Chapter 2 Personal Reminiscences on the History of Contourites -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Not All Deep-Sea Sands are Turbidites -- 2.3 Turbidophiles and Turbidophobes -- 2.4 Erosional Unconformity Misinterpreted -- Chapter 3 Methods for Contourite Research -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Oceanographic Measurements -- 3.3 Geophysical Methods -- 3.4 Sampling Strategies -- 3.5 Analytical Methods -- 3.6 Onshore Studies of Ancient Sequences -- 3.7 Summary of Multidisciplinary Techniques -- Acknowledgements -- Part 2 Bottom Currents -- Chapter 4 Abyssal and Contour Currents -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Abyssal Currents in the Global Thermohaline Circulation -- 4.3 Contour Currents -- 4.4 Conclusion and Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 5 Deep-water Bottom Currents and Their Deposits -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Thermohaline-Induced Geostrophic Bottom Currents -- 5.3 Wind-Driven Bottom Currents: The Loop Current -- 5.4 Deep-Water Tidal Bottom Currents -- 5.5 Internal Waves and Tides (Baroclinic Currents) -- 5.6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 6 Dynamics of the Bottom Boundary Layer -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Spectral Windows -- 6.3 Characteristics of the Bottom Boundary Layer -- 6.4 Analytical Approach of the BBL -- 6.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Part 3 Processes -- Chapter 7 Sediment Entrainment -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Benthic Storms (Transportation and Resuspension of Particles) -- 7.3 Gravity Flows -- 7.4 Bioclastics-Forming Processes in Contourites -- 7.5 Volcaniclastics -- 7.6 Glacial Activity. , 7.7 Resuspension of Particles by Burrowing Activity of Benthic Organisms -- 7.8 Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 8 Size Sorting During Transport and Deposition of Fine Sediments: Sortable Silt and Flow Speed -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Size Analysis of Fine Sediments -- 8.3 Unsorted Delivery to Deep Current Systems: Pelagic Flux and Down-Slope Transport -- 8.4 Controlling Factors for Input and Transport -- 8.5 Sorting in Suspension Transport -- 8.6 Processes of Deposition from Turbulent Boundary Layers -- 8.7 Deposits from Currents -- 8.8 Some Examples of Palaeoflow Inferred from Sortable-Silt records -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 9 The Nature of Contourite Deposition -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Bottom-Current Characteristics -- 9.3 Sedimentation rates and budget -- 9.4 Drift Deposition and Erosion -- 9.5 Bottom-Current Bedforms -- 9.6 Contourite Facies and Features -- 9.7 Contourite Cyclicity -- 9.8 Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Part 4 Sediments -- Chapter 10 Traction Structures in Contourites -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Traction-Structures Controversy -- 10.3 Setting the Stage for Sedimentary Structures in Contourites -- 10.4 Sedimentary Structures -- 10.5 Sedimentary Structures in Facies Models -- 10.6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 11 Bioturbation and Biogenic Sedimentary Structures in Contourites -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Effects of Contour Currents on Benthic Habitats -- 11.3 Examples of Bioturbation in Contourites -- 11.4 Discussion and Conclusions -- 11.5 Perspective -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 12 Some Aspects of Diagenesis in Contourites -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Some Examples of Sedimentary Rhythms Associated with Changes in Colour -- 12.3 Diagenesis of Fine-Grained Contourites -- 12.4 Diagenesis of Coarse-Grained Contourites -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 13 Contourite Facies and the Facies Model. , 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Historical Context -- 13.3 The Range of Contourite Facies -- 13.4 Contourite Facies Model and the Contourite Sequence -- 13.5 Lamination Versus Bioturbation in Contourites -- 13.6 Contourite-Related Facies -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix 1 Details of Contourite Facies Recovered from Modern Drift Systems Using Conventional Coring Techniques as Published Over the Past 15 Years -- 13A1.1 NW UK Continental Margin -- 13A1.2 Norwegian Continental Margin -- 13A1.3 Greenland Continental Margin -- 13A1.4 Gulf of Cadiz, Iberian Margin -- 13A1.5 Mediterranean Sea -- 13A1.6 East North American Continental Margin -- 13A1.7 East South American Continental Margin -- 13A1.8 East New Zealand Continental Margin, SW Pacific -- 13A1.9 Antarctic Continental Margin and Weddell Sea -- Part 5 Morphology, Geometry and Palaeoceanographic Reconstructions -- Chapter 14 Contourite Drifts: Nature, Evolution and Controls -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Drift Distribution and Characteristics -- 14.3 Growth History of the Blake Outer Ridge Drift System -- 14.4 Factors Controlling Drift Location, Morphology and Depositional Pattern -- 14.5 Contourite-Drift Types -- 14.6 Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 15 Sediment Waves and Bedforms -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Location, Morphology and Genesis of Fine-Grained Sediment Waves -- 15.3 Location, Morphology and Genesis of Coarse-Grained Sediment Waves -- 15.4 Related Large-Scale Features Generated by Bottom Currents -- 15.5 Applications to Bottom-Current Reconstruction: A Case Study From the NW UK -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 16 Seismic Expression of Contourite Depositional Systems -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Seismic Identification and Characteristics of Contourites -- 16.3 Seismic Methods and Interpretation Concepts in Contourite Studies -- 16.4 Summary -- Acknowledgements. , Chapter 17 Identification of Ancient Contourites: Problems and Palaeoceanographic Significance -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Examples of Fossil Contourites -- 17.3 Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Part 6 Domains -- Chapter 18 Abyssal Plain Contourites -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Terminology -- 18.3 Case Studies of Abyssal Contourites -- 18.4 Oceanic Gateways -- 18.5 Principal Oceanographic and Sedimentary Processes -- 18.6 Main Characteristics of Abyssal Plain Contourites -- 18.7 Final Considerations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 19 Continental Slope Contourites -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 Key Examples of Along-Slope Processes -- 19.3 Lower Slope to Continental Rise Transition and Other Kinds of Slopes -- 19.4 Principal Characteristics of Continental-Slope Contourites -- 19.5 Final Considerations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 20 Shallow-Water Contourites -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Bottom Currents Shaping Shallow-Water Contourite Deposits -- 20.3 Examples of Shallow-Water Contourites -- 20.4 Discussion -- 20.5 Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 21 Mixed Turbidite-Contourite Systems -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 Contourite and Turbidite Alternation -- 21.3 Redistribution of Gravity Deposits by Contour Currents -- 21.4 Interaction of Synchronous Contour and Turbidity Currents -- 21.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 22 High-Latitude Contourites -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 Neogene and Quaternary Changes in Deep-Water Circulation of the Northern North Atlantic and in the Southern Ocean -- 22.3 Northeast Atlantic Margin Contourites -- 22.4 Antarctic Margin Contourites -- 22.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Part 7 Importance -- Chapter 23 Economic Relevance of Contourites -- 23.1 Introduction -- 23.2 Major Implications of Contourite Studies -- 23.3 Contourites and Petroleum Exploration -- 23.4 Discussion -- Acknowledgements. , Chapter 24 Palaeoceanographic Significance of Contourite Drifts -- 24.1 Introduction -- 24.2 Oceanographic Settings of Contourites -- 24.3 Methods and Approaches -- 24.4 Palaeoceanographic Themes Addressed by Contourite Research -- 24.5 Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 25 The Significance of Contourites for Submarine Slope Stability -- 25.1 Introduction and Objective -- 25.2 Background -- 25.3 Case Studies of Contourites and Submarine Slope Stability -- 25.4 Discussion -- 25.5 Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index -- Color Plates.

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