Seismic Facies and Sedimentary Processes of Submarine Fans and Turbidite Systems

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Seismic Facies and Sedimentary Processes of Submarine Fans and Turbidite Systems: An Overview.- Global Petroleum Occurrences in Submarine Fans and Turbidite Systems.- Techniques and Topics in Turbidite Research.- An Integrated Approach to the Study of Turbidite Systems.- Photostratigraphy of Ancient Turbidite Systems.- Models for Submarine-Fan Deposition within a Sequence-Stratigraphic Framework.- Paleontologic Constraints on Depositional Modeling: Examples of Integration of Biostratigraphy and Seismic Stratigraphy, Pliocene-Pleistocene, Gulf of Mexico.- Modern Sand-Rich and Mud-Rich Siliciclastic Aprons: Alternative Base-of-Slope Turbidite Systems to Submarine Fans.- Seismic Facies and Sedimentary Processes of Ancient Submarine Fans and Turbidite Systems.- Seismic Expression and Recognition Criteria of Ancient Submarine Fans.- Seismic Facies of Slope Basin Turbidite Reservoirs, East Breaks 160-161 Field: Pliocene-Pleistocene, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico.- Sequence Stratigraphy of the Oligocene Turbidite Complex of the Campos Basin, Offshore Brazil: An Overview.- Seismic and Depositional Facies of Paleocene-Eocene Wilcox Group Submarine Canyon Fills, Northwest Gulf Coast, U.S.A..- Seismic Facies of Shelf, Slope, and Submarine Fan Environments of the Lewis Shale, Upper Cretaceous, Wyoming.- Seismic Stratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous Foreland Basin Submarine Fans in the North Slope, Alaska.- Seismic Expression and Sedimentologic Characteristics of a Permian (Wolfcampian) Carbonate Submarine Fan, Midland Basin, West Texas.- Seismic Facies and Sedimentary Processes of Modern Submarine Fans and Turbidite Systems.- Seismic Facies, Characteristics, and Variations in Channel Evolution, Mississippi Fan (Plio-Pleistocene), Gulf of Mexico.- Depositional Patterns of the MississippiFan Surface: Evidence from GLORIA II and High-Resolution Seismic Profiles.- Evolution of a Fan Channel on the Surface of the Outer Mississippi Fan: Evidence from Side-Looking Sonar.- Seismic Facies and Geologic Evolution of the Central Portion of the Indus Fan.- Seismic Facies, Processes, and Evolution of Miocene Inner Fan Channels, Indus Submarine Fan.- Seismic Facies and Late Quaternary Growth of Amazon Submarine Fan.