There has in recent times been a progress within the quantity and point of experiences of contourite deposits. most up-to-date experiences of contourites have significant strains of curiosity. One, propelled via the oil industry's non-stop stream into more and more deep waters, matters their monetary value. the opposite comprises the stratigraphic/ palaeoceanographic list of ocean stream adjustments imprinted on contourite deposits that may be a key to knowing higher the weather ocean connection. the appliance of many alternative theoretical, experimental and empirical assets supplied via geophysics, sedimentology, geochemistry, petrology, scale modeling and box geology are utilized in the sixteen papers of this quantity, providing solutions to these major features. The papers are subdivided into significant different types (economic curiosity and stratigraphic/palaeoceanographic significance), with case reviews starting from well-documented drifts to new examples of contemporary and fossil sequence, regarding a wide range of geographic and physiographic situations worldwide.
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