Turbidite vs. Debris Flow: A Class Debate on Deep Water Depositional Systems
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There is a huge amount of literature on this topic.
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P&S = Prothero, D.R., and Schwab, F., 2004, Sedimentary Geology: An Introduction to Sedimentary Rocks and Stratigraphy, 2nd edition: W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 557 p.
Gani, M.R., 2004, From turbid to lucid: A straightforward approach to sediment gravity flows and their deposits: The Sedimentary Record, v. 2, no. 3, p. 4-8.
Shanmugam, G., 2006, Deep-water processes and facies models: Implications for sandstone petroleum reservoirs: Elsevier, 600 p.