Note: Intro -- Deep-Water Turbidite Systems -- Contents -- Preface -- Deep-water turbidite systems: an introduction -- Processes: overview and commentary -- Modelling of turbidity currents on Navy Submarine Fan, California Continental Borderland -- A physical model for the transport and sorting of fine-grained sediment by turbidity currents -- The hydraulic interpretation of turbidites from their grain sizes and sedimentary structures -- Subaqueous liquefied and fluidized sediment flows and their deposits -- Flow regimes in debris flow -- Contained (reflected) turbidity currents from the Middle Ordovician Cloridorme Formation, Quebec, Canada: an alternative to the antidune hypothesis -- Reverse flow in turbidity currents: the role of internal solitons [abstract only] -- Measurements of density underflows from Walensee, Switzerland [abstract only] -- Debris flow (olistostromes) and slumping on a distal passive continental margin: the Palombini limestone-shale sequence of the northern Apennines [abstract only] -- Water escape structures in coarse-grained sediment flows and their deposits [abstract only] -- Facies characteristics: overview and commentary -- Turbiditic and non-turbiditic mudstone of Cretaceous flysch sections of the East Alps and other basins -- Distinguishing between fine-grained turbidites and contourites on the Nova Scotian deep-water margin -- Rhythms in deep sea, fine-grained turbidite and debris-flow sequences, Middle Ordovician, eastern Tennessee -- Distinctive thin-bedded turbidite facies and related depositional environments in the Eocene Hecho Group (south-central Pyrenees, Spain) -- Sedimentology of very thick calcarenite marlstone beds in a flysch succession, southwestern Pyrenees -- The Cambro-Ordovician Cap Enrage Formation, Quebec, Canada: conglomeratic deposits of a braided submarine channel with terraces. , Deep marine arc apron deposits and syndepositional magmatism in the Alisitos group at Punta Cono, Baja California, Mexico -- Use of clay fabric to distinguish turbiditic and hemipelagic siltstones and silts [abstract only] -- The Cretaceous Talme Yafe Formation: a contour current shaped sedimentary prism of calcareous detritus at the continental margin of the Arabian Craton [abstract only] -- Mass transport in European Cretaceous chalk -- fabric criteria for its recognition [abstract only] -- Middle and Late Quaternary depositional sequences and cycles in the eastern Mediterranean [abstract only] -- Texture and structure of resedimented conglomerates: examples from Ksiaz Formation (Famennian-Tournaisian), south-western Poland [abstract only] -- Water escape structures in the context of a depositional model of a mass flow dominated conglomeratic fan-delta (Abrioja Formation, Pliocene, Almeria Basin, SE Spain) [abstract only] -- Analytical study of turbidites, Otadai Formation, Boso Peninsula, Japan [abstract only] -- Detrital modes of recent deep-sea sands and their relation to tectonic setting: a first approximation [abstract only] -- Deep-water environments: overview and commentary -- Slope-apron systems -- Sedimentary facies of the Nova Scotian upper and middle continental slope, offshore eastern Canada -- Anatomy of a modern open-ocean carbonate slope: northern Little Bahama Bank -- Mesozoic carbonate rudites, megabreccias and associated deposits from central Greece -- Trench-slope channels from the New Zealand Jurassic: the Otekura Formation, Sandy Bay, South Otago [abstract only] -- Sedimentation during carbonate ramp-to-slope evolution in a tectonically active area: Bowland Basin (Dinantian), northern England [abstract only] -- The Rio Dell Formation: a Plio-Pleistocene basin slope deposit in Northern California [abstract only]. , Submarine fan systems -- Turbidite depositional patterns and flow characteristics, Navy Submarine Fan, California Borderland -- Submarine sedimentation on a developing Holocene fan delta -- Eocene fan delta-submarine deposition in the Wagwater Trough, east-central Jamaica -- Distributary channels, sand lobes, and mesotopography of Navy Submarine Fan, Californian Borderland, with applications to ancient fan sediments [abstract only] -- Morphology and Quaternary sedimentation of the Mozambique Fan and environs, southwestern Indian Ocean [abstract only] -- Sealers Bay submarine fan complex, Oligocene, southern New Zealand [abstract only] -- Triassic carbonate submarine fans along the Arabian platform margin, Sumeini Group, Oman [abstract only] -- A carbonate submarine fan in a fault-controlled basin of the Upper Jurassic, Betic Cordillera, southern Spain [abstract only] -- Basin plain systems -- Sedimentation in the Conway Trough, a deep near-shore marine basin at the junction of the Alpine transform and Hikurangi subduction plate boundary, New Zealand -- Depositional models for fine-grained sediment in the western Hellenic Trench, Eastern Mediterranean -- Proximal to distal sedimentological variation in a linear turbidite trough: implications for the fan model -- Deep-water fan-channel conglomerates of Late Cretaceous age, southern Chile [abstract only] -- The Hunghae Formation, SE Korea: Miocene debris aprons in a back-arc intraslope basin [abstract only] -- Index.

Note: Front Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 OVERVIEW -- About this book -- Classification of sedimentary rocks -- Economic studies -- 2 FIELD TECHNIQUES -- Safety in the field -- Field equipment -- General approach and field notebook -- Basic measurements and data records -- Field sketches and logs -- Paleocurrent and paleoslope analysis -- Stratigraphic procedure and way-up criteria -- Other techniques -- 3 PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS -- Introduction and facies concept -- Bedding and lamination -- Field photographs -- Erosional structures -- Field photographs -- Depositional structures -- Field photographs: parallel lamination and stratification -- Field photographs: wavy and lenticular lamination, cross-lamination and stratification -- Field photographs: graded beds and structural sequences -- Post-depositional deformation and dewatering structures -- Field photographs: slides, slumps, and chaotica -- Field photographs: deformed bedding and shale clasts -- Field photographs: water escape and desiccation structures -- Biogenic sedimentary structures -- Field photographs: bioturbation and biogenic structures -- Chemogenic sedimentary structures -- Field photographs -- Sediment texture and fabric -- Sediment composition -- Hand-lens photographs -- Fossils -- Sediment colour -- 4 CONGLOMERATES -- Definition and range of types -- Principal sedimentary characteristics -- Classification of conglomerates -- Occurrence -- Field photographs -- 5 SANDSTONES -- Definition and range of types -- Principal sedimentary characteristics -- Classification of sandstones -- Occurrence -- Field photographs -- 6 MUDROCKS -- Definition and range of types -- Principal sedimentary characteristics -- Classification of mudrocks -- Occurrence -- Field photographs -- 7 CARBONATE ROCKS -- Definition and range of types. , Principal sedimentary characteristics -- Classification of carbonate rocks -- Principal characteristics of dolomites -- Occurrence -- Field photographs -- 8 CHERTS AND SILICEOUS SEDIMENTS -- Definition and range of types -- Principal sedimentary characteristics -- Occurrence -- Field photographs -- 9 PHOSPHORITES -- Definition and range of types -- Principal sedimentary characteristics -- Occurrence -- Field photographs -- 10 COAL AND OIL -- Definition and range of types -- Principal sedimentary characteristics -- Occurrence -- Field photographs -- 11 EVAPORITES -- Definition and range of types -- Principal sedimentary characteristics -- Occurrence -- Field photographs -- 12 IRONSTONES -- Definition and range of types -- Principal sedimentary characteristics -- Occurrence -- Field photographs -- 13 SOILS, PALEOSOLS, AND DURICRUSTS -- Definition and range of types -- Principal sedimentary characteristics -- Field photographs -- 14 VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTS -- Definition and range of types -- Principal sedimentary characteristics -- Occurrence -- Field photographs -- 15 INTERPRETATIONS AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS -- Building blocks -- Facies characteristics and models -- Facies sequences and cycles -- Lateral trends and geometry -- Architectural elements and facies associations -- Sequence stratigraphy and bounding surfaces -- Field photographs: cycles, geometry, and unconformities -- Sediment interpretation in cores -- Core photographs -- Controls, rates, and preservation -- Depositional environments -- Field photographs: alluvial-fluvial environments -- Field photographs: desert-eolian environments -- Field photographs: glacial environments -- Field photographs: deltaic environments -- Field photographs: volcaniclastic environments -- Field photographs: shallow marine clastic environments -- Field photographs: marine evaporites and carbonates. , Field photographs: deep marine environments -- Tables: diagnostic features -- REFERENCES AND KEY TEXTS -- METRIC-IMPERIAL CONVERSIONS -- APPENDICES -- Stratigraphic timescale -- Mapping symbols -- Grain-size comparator chart -- Sediment description checklist -- Wulff stereonet -- Lambert equal-area projection -- Back Cover.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index