6.3 SEDIMENTARY MODELS
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Fig. 6.67. Physiography of the continental margin off California. (From Hand, B. M., and Emery, K. O. 1964.
Turbidites and topography of north end of San Diego Trough, California. J. Geol. 72, 526-552. By permission of the University of Chicago Press.) (Upper) Bathymetric chart showing main routes of sediment transport; contours in fathoms. (Lower) Physiographic units showing the mutual relationship between the slope
channels and their associated submarine levees and basin floor fans.
ciated channels of the Californian continental margin. Stanley and Unrug (1972) synthesized many data on modern submarine channel deposits and used them to identify
ancient analogs in Tertiary flysch basins of the Alps and of the Carpathians. Submarine
channel deposits consist largely of sands with varying amounts of conglomerate and
traces of shale. The sands occur in thick units with erosional bases. They are seldom
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Fig. 6.67. Physiography of the continental margin off California. (From Hand, B. M., and Emery, K. O. 1964.
Turbidites and topography of north end of San Diego Trough, California. J. Geol. 72, 526-552. By permission of the University of Chicago Press.) (Upper) Bathymetric chart showing main routes of sediment transport; contours in fathoms. (Lower) Physiographic units showing the mutual relationship between the slope
channels and their associated submarine levees and basin floor fans.
ciated channels of the Californian continental margin. Stanley and Unrug (1972) synthesized many data on modern submarine channel deposits and used them to identify
ancient analogs in Tertiary flysch basins of the Alps and of the Carpathians. Submarine
channel deposits consist largely of sands with varying amounts of conglomerate and
traces of shale. The sands occur in thick units with erosional bases. They are seldom