Long-term in situ observations on typhoon-triggered turbidity currents in the deep sea

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China (grants 91528304, 41576005, and 41530964). We thank J. Li, X. Lyu, P. Li, K. Duan, J. Ronan, Y. Wang, P. Ma, and Y. Li for cruise assistance; G. de Lange and J. Hinojosa for editing an early version of manuscript; and E. Pope and two anonymous reviewers for their reviews.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Sub-seismic scale folding and thrusting within an exposed mass transport deposit : A case study from NW Argentina

This work was carried out with support from CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) - Brazil, BG - Brazil and the University of Aberdeen. We would like to thank the following geologists for their support, camaraderie and countless hours of fieldwork: Arthur Giovannini, Claus Fallgatter, Victoria Valdez, Qun Liu, Carla Puigdomenech, Guilherme Bozetti and Roberto Noll Filho. We thank Christopher Jackson and an anonymous reviewer, whose constructive comments and criticism helped to improve the manuscript.Peer reviewedPostprin

Architectural and facies organization of slope channel fills : Upper Cretaceous Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico

This work comprised part of PL’s PhD study, which was funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC), and a research consortium including BG Group, BP, DONG, RWE Dea, Petrochina, Statoil and Tullow Oil. The authors thank all the many people associated with the deepwater research group at the University of Aberdeen, for their contributions to the mapping, description and interpretation of the study area, which provide the basis for this manuscript. Coding of the sedimentary logs and Markov chain analysis of coded logs were carried out respectively using the Matlab code (https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Model:OptimalCycleID) of Peter Burgess, and by the program phpSediStat (http://phpsedistat.sourceforge.net/index.html) of Staňová Sidónia, Soták Ján and Hudec Norbert. We thank the reviewers …….. and ……. for their helpful and constructive comments.Peer reviewedPostprin

Block generation, deformation and interaction of mass transport deposits with the seafloor : An outcrop-based study of the Carboniferous at Cerro Bola, NW Argentina

The research presented here was carried out with support from CNPq-Brazil (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) in partnership with Shell-Brazil. We thank Massimo Moretti and an anonymous reviewer, whose constructive comments and criticisms helped to improve the text, their efforts are highly appreciated. Finally, we thank Kei Ogata, Gian Andrea Pini and Andrea Festa for editing this volume.Peer reviewedPostprin

The initiation and evolution of the River Nile

This work was funded by a NERC Open CASE PhD studentship award NE/I018433/1, the NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities Steering Committee (IP-1248-0511, IP-1299-0512), and BP Egypt who we also thank for provision of samples and assistance in Egypt. We thank C. Stewart, V. Pashley and N. Roberts at NIGL for valuable laboratory assistance. This paper benefited from careful reviews by D. Chew and an anonymous reviewer.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Styles of basal interaction beneath mass transport deposits

We acknowledge the support of CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) - Brazil, Shell and the University of Aberdeen. The authors would like to thank GCSSEPM and SEPM for permission to publish some of their published figures and to all authors whose works were cited here as case studies.We would like to thank the following colleagues for their support, camaraderie and countless hours of fieldwork: Claus Fallgatter, Victoria Valdez, Carla Puigdomenech, Guilherme Bozetti, Roberto Noll Filho, Arthur Lemos Giovannini, Qun Liu, Thisiane dos Santos, Pan Li, Amanda Santa Catarina, Ramon Lopez Jimenez and Larissa Hansen. Last but not least, we thank Lorena Moscardelli and Kei Ogata for their insightful reviews that improved this manuscriptPeer reviewedPostprin

Tabularity of individual turbidite beds controlled by flow efficiency and degree of confinement

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the PRAX 2 Joint Industry Project at the University of Aberdeen, funded by Petrochina, Statoil, BP and Det Norske (now AkerBP), which has allowed us to undertaken this study. We are grateful to Professor Bryan Cronin who provided much assistance and advice in the field. We also wish to thank Jianan Wu and Guilherme Bozetti for their assistance in the field. Three reviewers (Mike Mayall, Georgios Pantopoulos and an anonymous reviewer) provided very constructive and crucial ideas, which have greatly improved the manuscript.Peer reviewedPostprin