Turbidity currents transport sediments downslope and account for many graded sequences included in displaced clastic sediment embedded in deep-water deposits. Contour currents flow parallel with the isobaths and transport fine sediments for thousands of miles along the continental margins. The resulting deposits of these processes are turbidites and contourites. These two deep-water deposits commonly have been confused, even in modern sediments.

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