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SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY — VOLUME 82 — NOS. 1-4 Special Volume: CONTOURITES AND BOTTOM CURRENTS Edited by: D.A.V. STOW University of Southampton, Department of Geology, Southampton SO95NH (U.K.) and J.-C. FAUGERES Department of Geology and Oceanography, U.R.A. 197, Avenue des Facultés, 33405 Talence (France) Contents a ns ok Clk eee See bbs ee wa die eed 4 0s Re eR We 0 eee Ce Ae Le aaeae lla. accel Introduction The concept of deep-sea contourites ee ee i CEM os k's oh. Gubld © Oe We bie RAO eke b eR EOS 2 ae bale a a eee Modern and subrecent contourite systems: Atlantic Ocean Contourites in the Fram Strait A ae rr ROR, “cs dn aa pcg etanet rrie wyl ia Gee aac aah Aral aw earache an healt cone eo ee 15 Sedimentary characteristics of Late Pleistocene bottom-current deposits, Barents Sea slope off northern Norway ee ee a ei ka weF ad ck Wk 6 Oe ee ORs ee el oe ea Chad 33 The contour-current flow along the southern Iceland—Faeroe Ridge as documented by its bedforms and asymmetrical channel fillings a I ob go ei gw Wik A AS We EW a ek See Keke OAR tae eke 47 Shallow Plio—Pleistocene contourites on the Hebrides Slope, northwest U.K. continental margin py RS ER rene a ST Ra Reger mae PMN ORT age oe ONE hrs9 aly ge an, asa en 8 ot 61 Sedimentation on the Feni Drift and late Glacial bottom water production in the northern Rockall Trough lees Un ns Ce OO ED ss aac ou ee A dk wea aed Oo thks eh ReRa Rea 79 Late Quaternary sediment flux on sedimentary drifts in the Northeast Atlantic M. Cremer, J.-C. Faugéres, F. Grousset and E. Gonthier (Talence, France) .......00.0 c.ec.e c.ee .eee. t.een s 89 Mediterranean undercurrent sandy contourites, Gulf of Cadiz, Spain C.H. Nelson (Menlo Park, Calif.), J. Baraza and A. Maldonado (Barcelona, Spain) ............c.ec0e 0ee0eeee e 103 Surface sediment response to deepwater circulation on the Blake Outer Ridge, western North Atlantic: paleoceanographic implications ee ep a ee a ee arene Se reer ere ase 133 Radiolarian contourites record Eocene AABW circulation in the equatorial East Atlantic M. Sarnthein (Kiel, F.R.G.) and J.C. Faugéres (Bordeaux, France) ......... 0.0.0 cece cece eee ee ee eee tees 145 Current-controlled sedimentation in the Equatorial Atlantic: examples from the southern margin of the Guinea Plateau and the Romanche Fracture Zone F. Westall (Nantes, France), S. Rossi (Bologna, Italy) and J. Mascle (Villefranche-sur-Mer, France) ............... 157 Contour current accumulation off Vema Channel mouth, southern Brazil Basin: pattern of a “contourite fan” M.-L. Mézerais, J.-C. Faugéres (Talence, France), A.G. Figueiredo Jr. (Charitas, Brazil) and Laurent Massé (Talence, NN a cia a ak cs £8 oO bb Oa OE Ck ben eae OT CAR Oka cP eC ae eae ote 173 Contourite drift types and their distribution in the North and South Atlantic Ocean basins J.-C. Faugéres, M.-L. Mézerais (Talence, France) and D.A.V. Stow (Southampton, U.K.) .............000000eee e Modern and ancient contourite systems: Mediterranean and West Pacific Sediment drifts and erosional surfaces in the central Mediterranean: seismic evidence of bottom-current activity M. Marani, A. Argnani, M. Roveri and F. Trincardi (Bologna, Italy) .....0.... c.ece. .e.e e.ee e.e e es Photographic evidence of variable bottom-current activity in the Suruga and Sagami Bays, central Japan ee , b e weeds s Cece eee bevecedeesevesceveseer 221 Ancient contourite systems Model for turbidite-to-contourite continuum and multiple process transport in deep marine settings: examples in the rock record Neen ne sepe eld bb oes wceke seeadenceacutasvebe 241 Ordovician contourites in the Lachlan Fold Belt, eastern Australia B.G. Jones, C.L. Fergusson and P.F. Zambelli (Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia) .......0.00.0 .ee.e 0ee.e e.e e 257 A fossil carbonate contourite drift on the Lower Ordovician palaeocontinental margin of the middle Yangtze Terrane, Jiuxi, northern Hunan, southern China T. Duan, Z. Gao (Hubei, China), Y. Zeng (Chengdu, China) and D. Stow (Southampton, U.K.) ................05. 271 Synthesis Bottom-current-controlled sedimentation: a synthesis of the contourite problem J.-C. Faugéres (Talence, France) and D.A.V. Stow (Southampton, U.K.) ....0.0.... c.cc e.e eee. eee. ee e.ee e ee 287 ExpresSed Revision of the marine chronology in the Wanganui Basin, New Zealand, based on the isothermal plateau fission-track dating of tephra horizons B.V. Alloway (Scarborough, Ont., Canada), B.J. Pillans (Wellington, New Zealand), A.S. Sandhu and J.A. Westgate re ise ek ee eae es ge i lige CREEKS Oh a OURS SORA CaS Ree EOD ROO was