Submarine carbonate breccia beds—a oppositional model for two-layer, sediment gravity flows from the Sekwi Formation (Lower Cambrian), Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
- Vol. 16 (1) , 189-199
- https://doi.org/10.1139/e79-017
Abstract
In the Sekwi Formation, carbonate breccia beds interbedded with slope sediments are interpreted as submarine sediment gravity flows that formed a two-layer deposit during a single transport event. They are intermediate between true slumps and turbidites and may initiate by slumping anywhere on the continental slope and rise. Textural characteristics of the deposits are a function of downslope transport distance.Keywords
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