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Turbidites were first properly described by Arnold H. Bouma (1962), who studied deepwater sediments and recognized particular “fining-up intervals” within deep water, fine-grained shales, which were anomalous because they started at pebble conglomerates and terminated in shales. This was anomalous because within the deep ocean it had historically been assumed that there was no mechanism by which tractional flow could carry and deposit coarse-grained sediments into the abyssal depths.
