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Edited By M. Rebesco, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica, Sgonico, Italy A. Camerlenghi, ICREA, Istituci Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avan ats c/o GRC Geoci ncies Marines Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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Contents
Part 1. Contourite Research
1. Introduction
2. Personal reminiscences on the history of contourites
3. Methods for contourite
research
Part 2. Bottom currents
4. Abyssal and contour currents
5. Deep-water bottom currents and their deposits
6. Dynamics of the bottom boundary layer
Part 3. Processes
7. Sediment entrainment
8. Size sorting during transport
and deposition of fine sediments: sortable silt and flow speed
9. The nature of contourite deposition
Part 4. Sediments
10. Traction structures in contourites
11. Bioturbation and biogenic sedimentary structures in contourites
12. Some aspets of diagenesis
in contourites
13. Contourite facies and the facies model
Part 5. Morphology, geometry and palaeoceanographic reconstructions
14. Contourite drifts: nature, evolution and controls
15. Sediment waves and bedforms
16. Seismic expression of contourite depositional
systems
17. Identification of ancient contourites: problems and paleoceanographic signifance
Part 6. Domains
18.
Abyssal plain contourites
19. Continental slope contourites
20. Shallow water contourites
21. Mixed turbidite-contourite systems
22.
High latituted contourites
Part 7. Importance
23. Economic relevance of contourites
24. Paleoceanographic significance
of contourite drifts
25. The significance of contourites for submarine slope stability
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