All Days 2004
DOI: 10.4043/16752-ms
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Mass Transport Complex: Musing on Past Uses and Suggestions for Future Directions

Abstract: Mass-transport complexes (MTCs) are significant deposits in deepwater settings. The term MTC is a seismic stratigraphic term and can only be applied to features at a scale that can only be completely imaged on volumetrically large seismic surveys. MTCs vary in size and shape, from filling one intraslope basin to several 1000's of square km in unconfined settings. MTCs can vary in thickness from 5 m to 100's of m. Their upper surface is usually irregular, and it commonly eroded by overlying channel and related … Show more

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“…Mass Transport Deposits (MTDs) provide constraints to understanding physical processes involved in failure development (see Part V) but also have significant implications in sequence stratigraphy (Beaubouef and Abreu 2010) and non-renewable energy resource exploration and production (Posamentier and Kolla 2003;Weimer and Shipp 2004;Gamboa et al 2010). MTDs can be investigated at different scales, ranging from margin-wide tectono-or sequence-stratigraphic considerations to small-scale microfabric analysis of MTDs inferring paleo-stress conditions, transport direction, depositional mode and resulting porosity and permeability structure.…”
Section: Part Viii: Architecture Of Mass Transport Deposits/complexesmentioning
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“…Mass Transport Deposits (MTDs) provide constraints to understanding physical processes involved in failure development (see Part V) but also have significant implications in sequence stratigraphy (Beaubouef and Abreu 2010) and non-renewable energy resource exploration and production (Posamentier and Kolla 2003;Weimer and Shipp 2004;Gamboa et al 2010). MTDs can be investigated at different scales, ranging from margin-wide tectono-or sequence-stratigraphic considerations to small-scale microfabric analysis of MTDs inferring paleo-stress conditions, transport direction, depositional mode and resulting porosity and permeability structure.…”
Section: Part Viii: Architecture Of Mass Transport Deposits/complexesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, the deposits resulting from such processes provide-various types of constraints to offshore development , and have significant implications for non-renewable energy resource exploration and production (Weimer and Shipp 2004;Beaubouef and Abreu 2010).…”
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“…In addition, the deposits resulting from such processes provide-various types of constraints to offshore development (Shipp et al 2004), and have significant implications for non-renewable energy resource exploration and production (Weimer and Shipp 2004;Beaubouef and Abreu 2010). In addition, the deposits resulting from such processes provide-various types of constraints to offshore development (Shipp et al 2004), and have significant implications for non-renewable energy resource exploration and production (Weimer and Shipp 2004;Beaubouef and Abreu 2010).…”
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“…The investigation of the depositional products of submarine landslides provides useful information to understand the processes of sediment failures, downslope transport and emplacement (Weimer and Shipp, 2004). The progressive development of the resolution power of marine geophysical techniques, such as multibeam bathymetric acquisition systems (MBES) and very-high resolution Chirp-sonar technology has greatly improved the study of margins affected by slope instability by combining the analysis of both geomorphological attributes and shallow-subsurface stratigraphic organization (Tripsanas et al, 2008;Migeon et al, 2011;Gamberi et al, 2011;Rovere et al, 2014).…”
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