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Geological Society, London, Special Publications; 1984; v. 15; p. 3-14;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.01
© 1984 Geological Society of London

Introduction

Deep-water fine-grained sediments; history, methodology and terminology

D. A. V. Stow & D. J. W. Piper

Grant Institute of Geology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, Scotland
Atlantic Geoscience Center, Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, P O Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, B27 4A2

To introduce this collection of papers presented at an international research workshop in Halifax, Canada (1982), we highlight briefly three aspects of deep-water fine-grained sediments that are alluded to throughout the volume but never discussed specifically. These are: (a) an historical outline of the research that has made both possible and necessary the workshop and the volume; (b) a review of the methodology currently used in the study of fine-grained sediments; and (c) an assessment of the state of terminology as applied to this class of rocks.





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