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Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Volume 15, 1984
Fine-grained Sediments: Deep-water Processes and Facies
Edited by:
D. A. V. Stow, Grant Institute of Geology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland and
D. J. W. Piper, Atlantic Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Table of Contents

Introduction

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    Deep-water fine-grained sediments; history, methodology and terminology
    D. A. V. Stow and D. J. W. Piper
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 3-14, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.01

Processes

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    A review of fine-grained sediment origins, characteristics, transport and deposition
    D. S. Gorsline
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 17-34, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.02
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    Erosion, transport and deposition of fine-grained marine sediments
    I. N. McCave
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 35-69, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.03
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    Methods and observations in the study of deep-sea suspended particulate matter
    S. L. Eittreim
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 71-82, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.04
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    Grain-size characteristics of turbidites
    Kate Kranck
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 83-92, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.05

Terrigenous Turbidites and Associated Facies

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    Fine-grained sediments of the Zaire deep-sea fan, southern Atlantic Ocean
    T. C. E. van Weering and J. van Iperen
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 95-113, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.06
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    Sedimentary sequences on the north-west Mediterranean margin during the Late Quaternary: a dynamic interpretation
    A. Monaco and Y. Mear
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 115-125, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.07
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    Sedimentology of the Halifax Formation, Nova Scotia: Lower Palaeozoic fine-grained turbidites
    D. A. V. Stow, M. Alam and D. J. W. Piper
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 127-144, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.08
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    Sedimentation in the southern Cape Verde Basin: regional observations by long-range sidescan sonar
    R. B. Kidd and R. C. Searle
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 145-152, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.09
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    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 and C. Muller
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 153-167, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.10
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    Sedimentary processes on the west Hellenic Arc margin
    H. Got
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 169-183, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.11
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    Fine-grained turbidites and associated mass-flow deposits in the Ulleung (Tsushima) Back-arc Basin, East Sea (Sea of Japan)
    S. K. Chough
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 185-196, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.12

Carbonate Turbidites and Associated Facies

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    Open-ocean, off-bank transport of fine-grained carbonate sediment in the Northern Bahamas
    K. C. Heath and H. T. Mullins
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 199-208, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.13
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    Late Quaternary calcareous clayey-silty muds in the Obock Trough (Gulf of Aden): hemipelagites or fine-grained turbidites?
    J.-C. Faugères, M. Cremer, E. Gonthier, M. Noel and J. Poutiers
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 209-222, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.14
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    Depositional model for calcilutites: Scaglia Rossa limestones, Umbro-Marchean Apennines
    D. A. V. Stow, S. C. R. Rainey, G. Angell, F. C. Wezel and D. Savelli
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 223-241, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.15

Contourites

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    North Atlantic contourites: an overview
    D. A. V. Stow and J. A. Holbrook
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 245-256, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.16
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    Contourite or turbidite?: magnetic fabric of fine-grained Quaternary sediments, Nova Scotia continental rise
    A. N. Shor, D. V. Kent and R. D. Flood
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 257-273, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.17
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    Contourite facies of the Faro Drift, Gulf of Cadiz
    E. G. Gonthier, J.-C. Faugères and D. A. V. Stow
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 275-292, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.18
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    The sediment texture of contourites in Lake Superior
    J. D. Halfman and T. C. Johnson
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 293-307, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.19

Hemipelagites and Associated Facies of Slopes and Slope Basins

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    Facies and sequence analysis of Nova Scotian Slope muds: turbidite vs ‘hemipelagic’ deposition
    P. R. Hill
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 311-318, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.20
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    The role of canyons in late Quaternary deposition on the United States mid-Atlantic continental rise
    B. A. McGregor, T. A. Nelsen, W. L. Stubblefield and G. F. Merrill
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 319-330, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.21
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    A late Miocene and early Pliocene upper slope-to-shelf 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 and T. Sameshima
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 331-342, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.22
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    Facies, facies-associations and sediment transport/deposition processes in a late Precambrian upper basin-slope/pro-delta,, Finnmark, N. Norway
    K. T. Pickering
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 343-362, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.23
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    Continental source area contributions to fine-grained sediments on the Oregon and Washington continental slope
    L. A. Krissek
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 363-375, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.24
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    Basin model for hemipelagic sedimentation in a tectonically active continental margin: Santa Barbara Basin, California Continental Borderland
    S. E. Thornton
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 377-394, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.25
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    Studies of fine-grained sediment transport processes and products in the California Continental Borderland
    D. S. Gorsline, R. L. Kolpack, H. A. Karl, D. E. Drake, S. E. Thornton, J. R. Schwalbach, C. E. Savrda and P. Fleischer
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 395-415, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.26
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    Fine-grained sediments associated with fan lobes: Santa Paula Creek, California
    R. Bourrouilh and D. S. Gorsline
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 417-433, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.27

Pelagites and Organic-Rich Sediments

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    Origin of varve-type lamination, graded claystones and limestone-shale ‘couplets’ in the lower Cretaceous of the western North Atlantic
    A. H. F. Robertson
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 437-452, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.28
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    Hemipelagic chalks in a clastic submarine fan sequence: Miocene SW Turkey
    A. B. Hayward
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 453-467, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.29
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    Source rock potential of Bahamian Trough carbonates
    P. D. Crevello, J. W. Patton, T. W. Oesleby, W. Schlager and A. Droxler
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 469-480, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.30
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    Hemipelagic deposits in a Miocene basin, California: toward a model of lithologic variation and sequence
    C. M. Isaacs
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 481-496, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.31
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    Sapropels and organic-rich variants in the Mediterranean: sequence development and classification
    George C. Anastasakis and Daniel Jean Stanley
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 497-510, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.32
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    The sedimentology of the Swedish Alum Shales
    A. Thickpenny
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 511-525, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.33
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    Models for the deposition of Mesozoic-Cenozoic fine-grained organic-carbon-rich sediment in the deep sea
    M. A. Arthur, W. E. Dean and D. A. V. Stow
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 527-560, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.34

Internal Characteristics

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    Plasticity and compaction characteristics of the Quaternary sediments penetrated on the Guatemalan Transect—DSDP Leg 67
    R. W. Faas
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 563-577, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.35
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    Fabric of muds and shales: an overview
    C. F. Moon and C. W. Hurst
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 579-593, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.36
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    Bioturbation in deep-sea fine-grained sediments: influence of sediment texture, turbidite frequency and rates of environmental change
    A. Wetzel
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 595-608, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.37

Facies Models: Synthesis

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    Deep-water fine-grained sediments: facies models
    D. A. V. Stow and D. J. W. Piper
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 15, 611-646, 1 January 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1984.015.01.38
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