Turbidite facies, associations, and sequences in the southeastern Angola Basin.

Abstract

Turbidite sedimentation occurred throughout the Cretaceous to Recent history of the Angola Basin but was particularly important in three discrete intervals of fan development. Three turbidite classes are identified. Complete and partial sequences can be interpreted in terms of depositional process and subenvironment. The composition of the sediment (sand, mud, biogenic, terrigenous, etc.) is found to play an important part in the nature of turbidites deposited.-from Author