Lecture 20 Turbidites and other deep- ocean sediments.
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Lecture 20 Turbidites and other deep-ocean sediments
Idealized passive continental margin
Continental shelf and rise and abyssal plain of the western North Atlantic Ocean
Active continental margin commonly has no continental rise
Frontal thrust and slide scars
Young frontal thrust diverting canyon-channel
system
The Cascadian continental margin
An example of oceanic bathymetry along an active plate boundary
Columbia River
submarine fan
An idealized Bouma sequence
Geometry of submarine fans and the associations of facies
A-E/G facies,
Central Range, Taiwan
Distribution of submarine fan facies
The abyssal plain of the western North Atlantic Ocean
