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Large submarine canyons incise most continental margins, but outcrops of comparably sized ancient examples are relatively rare. A preserved cross section of a filled Cretaceous-Paleocene submarine canyon, tens of kilometers wide by hundreds of meters deep and cut into granitic basement of the Salinian block, is exposed in the Santa Lucia Range of central coastal California. The exposure allows an opportunity for the detailed analysis of associated sand-rich deposits analogous to one type of petroleum reservoir. A succession of coarse-grained high-density turbidity current deposits present at Wagon Caves Rock (WCR), a 0.5 km 2 mesa in the Indians Ranch area, is part of a lenticular sandstone body up to 75 m thick and several kilometers wide that accumulated within the confines of the submarine canyon. The facies architecture of the outcrop records canyon axial channel deposition in the middle reaches of the submarine canyon system. The uppermost beds at WCR record the catastrophic failure of the submarine-canyon wall, which was associated with the termination of coarse clastic deposition in the area. The modern Monterey submarine canyon, which incises Salinian block basement identical to that cut by the ancient canyon, provides a close analog for the depositional setting of the canyon deposits of the Indians Ranch area. The architectural analysis provides insight into facies and stratal architecture within a part of the deep-water slope environment that is relatively poorly known due to limited rock data from canyon successions and the inherent difficulty of recognizing large-scale submarinecanyon deposits in outcrop.

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Digitization is bringing dramatic changes in all areas of life and presenting businesses with huge challenges. Only a few years ago some industries, in particular those that had had little to do with IT, the cloud, and the Internet, did not seem to be fully aware of the inevitability of this. The car industry began working at a fairly early stage on autonomous driving systems and infotainment modules, which were aimed primarily at distracting passengers and eventually also drivers with entertainment and new opportunities for working in cars. But only a few people in the automotive industry considered calling the entire system of individual transport into question. Now the lead strategists at the carmakers are working on plans for software apps like the one used by Uber that will revolutionize personal transport and turn it into a commodity service which can be used anywhere at any time, without the need to own a car. No driver, no parking, no congestion. Is this a Utopian vision of the future? No. This scenario is likely to become reality in many megacities between 2030 and 2035. This puts the business model of the car manufacturers in doubt and at the moment the German automotive industry is not a strong position in this respect. We need to ensure that the future mobility platforms do not come only from the USA and Asia. Another aspect of life that digitization is changing is our view of work and the workplace. The clear boundary between