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DISTAL TURBIDITE [1 record]

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Record 1 1997-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
CONT

distal: Said of a sedimentary deposit consisting of fine clastics and formed farthest from the source area; e.g. a "distal turbidite" consisting of thin silty varves, or the most remote foreland deposit derived from the borderland in a geosynclinal region.

OBS

As opposed to "proximal turbidite".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
CONT

La partie grossière de la séquence [sédimentaire] [...] s'observe au pied des talus (turbidites proximales) tandis que la partie fine [...] subsiste seule plus au large (turbidites distales). [...] La ressemblance des contourites avec les turbidites distales doit [...] inciter à la prudence dans les interprétations paléogéographiques.

Spanish

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