Dedication: William R Normark & Bruno Savoye
Introduction
External controls on deep-water sedimentary systems: challenges & perspectives
Ben Kneller, Ole J. Martinsen & Bill Mccaffrey
External Controls: Overview
Climate change. sea-level change, & fluvial sediment supply to deepwatcr depositional systems: a review
Michael D. Blum & Jill Hattier-Womack
Net pumping of sediment into deep water due to base-level cycling: Experimental & theoretical results, Wonsuck Kim, Chris Paola, John Martin, Marty Perlmutter, & Frederick Tapaha
External controls on modern clastic turbidite systems: three case studies C. Hans Nelson, Carlota Escutia, Chris Goldfinger, Eugene Karabanov, & Julia Gutierrez-Pastor
External Controls on Pleistocene & Holocene Systems
The Congo deep-sea fan as an archive of Quaternary change in Africa & the eastern tropical south Atlantic (a review) Lydie M. Dupont
Cycles in the architecture of the Quaternary Zaire turbidite system: a possible link with climate, Tania Marsset, Laurence Droz, Bernard Dennielou, & Emile Pichon
Architecture & stratigraphy of the Bengal Fan as response to tectonic & climate revealed from high-resolution seismic data, Tilmann Schwenk & Volkhard Spies
Review of the timing & causes of the Amazon-fan mass transport & avulsion deposits during the latest Pleistocene, Mark A. Maslin The influence of external processes on the Holocene evolution of the Mississippi Fan, David Twichell, C. Hans Nelson, Neil Kenyon & William Schwab
Climatic control on turbidite deposition during the last 70 kyr along the Toyama deep-sea channel, central Japan Sea, Takeshi Nakajima, Hajime Katayama, & Takuya Itaki
Earthquake control of Holocene turbidite frequency confirmed by hemipelagic sedimentation chronology" on the Cascadia & northern California active continental margins, Julia Gutierrez-Pastor, C. Hans Nelson, Chris Goldfinger, Joel E. Johnson, Carlota Escutta, Andrew Eriksson, Ann E. Morey, & The Shipboard Scientific Party
Late Pleistocene & Holocene depositional faci.es of the Almeria Channel (Alboran Sea, western Mediterranean), Graziella Bozzano, Belen Alonso, Gemma Ercilla, Ferran Estrada & Marga Garcia
The impact of margin-shaping processes on the architecture of the Sardinian & Sicilian margin submarine depositional systems within the Tyrrhenian Sea, Fabiano Gamberi & Giacomo Dalla Valle
Control of regional geology on the style of basin-plain depositional systems in the Tyrrhenian Sea, Fabiano Galvberi & M. Marani
Paleomagnetic secular variation time constraints on late Neogene geological events in slope sediment from the eastern Tyrrhenian sea, M. Iorio, J. Liddicoat, F. Budillon, P. Tiano, A. Incoronato, R. Coe, & E. Marsella
External Controls on Older Systems
Climatic control on deposition of Middle to Upper Pliocene deepwater, gravity-driven strata in the
Apennines foredeep (central Italy): correlations to the marine oxygen isotope record, G. Cantalamessa, C. Di Celma, M. Potetti, P. Lori, P. Didaskalou, A. Albianelli, & G. Napoleone
Development of subaqueous fold belts as a control on the timing & distribution of deepwater sedimentation: an example from the southwest Karoo Basin, South Africa, Rosalind C. King, David M. Hodgson, Stephen S. Flint, Graham J. Potts & Belinda Van Lente
Carbonate-platform production & export potential recorded in Upper Jurassic base-of-slope deposits (central Appennines, Italy), Giovanni Rusciadelli, Bruno D'argenio, Salvatore Di Simone, Vittoria Ferreri, Andrrea Randisi, & Cristiano Ricci
Trends in bed thickness & facies of turbiditic s&stone bodies: unravelling the effects of basin confinement, depositional processes, & modes of sediment supply, Riccardo Bersezio, Fabrizio Felletti, Simone Riva, & Luca Micucli
Modeling of External Controls
Sustained turbidity currents: evidence from the Pliocene periadriatic foredeep (Cellino basin, Central Italy)
Fabrizio Felletti, Stefano Carruba, & Raffaele Casnedi
On the possibility of interf erring paleoflow conditions from turbidite deposits: an example from the Laga Formation (central Appennines, Italy), Federico Falcini, Salvatore Milli, Massimiliano Moscatelli, & Olivier Stanzione
A turbidity-current model to simulate impact of basin-scale forcing parameters, T. Salles, S. Lopez, R. Eschard, T. Mulder, T. Euzen & M.-C. Cacas
On forced instabilities of sediment-resuspending marine gravity currents, Federico Falcini, P. Maponi, & E. Salusti
Index