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Stratal characteristic and depositional origin of two-part (mud-poor overlain by mud-rich) and associated deep-water strata; components in a lateral depositional continuum related to particle settling in negligibly sheared mud-rich suspensions by Ningthoujam, Jagabir, Wearmouth, Curran, Arnott, R. W. C

“…Deep-marine strata consisting of a sandy basal part overlain sharply by a muddier and mud-clast-rich upper part are increasingly being recognized in the…”
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Systematic vertical organization of matrix-rich and associated matrix-poor sandstones in ancient deep-marine slope and basin-floor deposits by Ningthoujam, Jagabir, Arnott, R. W. C, Wearmouth, Curran

“…Deep-marine two-part strata consisting of a sand-rich basal part overlain sharply by a mud-rich upper part have been termed linked debrites, hybrid event beds,…”
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Composition and architecture of braided and sheetflood-dominated ephemeral fluvial strata in the Cambrian-Ordovician Potsdam Group; a case example of the morphodynamics of early Phanerozoic fluvial systems and climate change by Lowe, David G, Arnott, R. W. C

“…Two fluvial facies associations, braided and ephemeral fluvial, are recognized in strata of the Cambrian-Ordovician Potsdam Group in the Ottawa Embayment and…”
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Deep-marine pseudo dune cross-stratification-similar, but completely different by Arnott, R. W. C, Al-Mufti, O

“…High-angle cross-stratification related to the downflow migration of subaqueous dunes is common in the continental sedimentary record but is puzzlingly…”
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Laterally accreting sinuous channels and their deposits; the Goldilocks of deep-water slope systems by Arnott, R. W. C. Bill, Tilston, Mike, Fraino, Patricia, Navarro, Lillian, Dumouchel, Gerry, Miklovich, Nicole

“…Channels with a sinuous planform are common in both continental and deep-marine environments on Earth, and similarly in high-resolution images of the surface…”
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Turbidites, and the case of the missing dunes by Arnott, R. W. C

“…In the deep-marine stratigraphic record classical turbidites are common and when complete comprise five vertically stacked units, which in ascending order are…”
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Provenance of the incipient passive margin of NW Laurentia (Neoproterozoic); detrital zircon from continental slope and basin floor deposits of the Windermere Supergroup, southern Canadian Cordillera by Hadlari, Thomas, Arnott, R. W. C, Matthews, W. A, Poulton, T. P, Root, K, Madronich, L. I

“…The origin of the passive margin forming the paleo-Pacific western edge of the ancestral North American continent (Laurentia) constrains the breakup of Rodinia…”
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Experiments on oscillatory-flow and combined-flow bed forms; implications for interpreting parts of the shallow-marine sedimentary record by Dumas, Simone, Arnott, R. W. C, Southard, John B

“…Analog laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate subaqueous bed forms generated under storm-like oscillatory and combined flow. Experiments were…”
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Stratal architecture and origin of lateral accretion deposits (LADs) and conterminuous inner-bank levee deposits in a base-of-slope sinuous channel, lower Isaac Formation (Neoproterozoic), East-Central British Columbia, Canada by Arnott, R.W.C.

“…In the Castle Creek study area, a vertically dipping, 2.5 km-thick succession of basin-floor to base-of-slope Neoproterozoic rocks are superbly exposed. In…”
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Stratal attributes and evolution of asymmetric inner- and outer-bend levee deposits associated with an ancient deep-water channel-levee complex within the Isaac Formation, southern Canada by Khan, Zishann A., Arnott, R.W.C.

“…Isaac Channel 3 is a rare outcrop example of a perpendicular cut through a sinuous deep-water channel, and also where levee deposits formed on opposite sides…”
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The Parasequence Definition--Are Transgressive Deposits Inadequately Addressed? by R. W. C. Arnott

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Anatomy and evolution of a slope channel-complex set (Neoproterozoic Isaac Formation, Windermere Supergroup, southern Canadian Cordillera); implications for reservoir characterization by Schwarz, Ernesto, Arnott, R. William C

“…A detailed architectural analysis was conducted in Isaac Unit 5 of the Isaac Formation in the Castle Creek area (east-central B.C., Canada). Isaac Unit 5…”
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Parallel lamination formed by high-density turbidity currents by Leclair, Suzanne F, Arnott, R. William C

“…Experiments were conducted in order to investigate processes of sediment transport and deposition from sustained turbidity currents with initial…”
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Hydraulic-jump and hyperconcentrated-flow deposits of a glacigenic subaqueous fan; Oak Ridges Moraine, southern Ontario, Canada by Russell, H. A. J, Arnott, R. W. C

“…The Oak Ridges Moraine in southern Ontario is a poly-genetic moraine constructed of a number of coalesced deposits of glacifluvial and glacilacustrine origin…”
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Quasi-Planar-Laminated Sandstone Beds of the Lower Cretaceous Bootlegger Member, North-Central Montana: Evidence of Combined-Flow Sedimentation by R. W. C. Arnott

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Bedforms, Primary Structures and Grain Fabric in the Presence of Suspended Sediment Rain by R. W. C. Arnott , Bryce M. Hand

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Influence of the Ancestral Sweetgrass Arch on Sedimentation of the Lower Cretaceous Bootlegger Member, North-Central Montana by R. W. C. Arnott , F. J. Hein

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Syn-rift volcanism (ca. 670 Ma) in the lower Windermere Supergroup, southern Canadian Cordillera: New constraints on the syn- to post-rift transition for northwestern Laurentia by Hadlari, Thomas, Rayner, N.M., Poulton, T.P., Arnott, R.W.C.

“…•Mafic volcanics of the Irene Formation are inter-stratified with Sturtian diamictite.•New U-Pb zircon age dates the upper Irene Formation volcanics to…”
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Groundwater silcrete linked to brine migration in a continental rift: An alternative to the near-surface model of silcrete by Lowe, David G., DeSantis, E., Arnott, R.W.C., Conliffe, J.

“…Silcretes have long been recognized as modern and ancient duricrusts, but more recently also as silicified layers precipitated at groundwater tables, termed…”
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Key future directions for research on turbidity currents and their deposits by Talling, Peter J, Allin, Joshua, Armitage, Dominic A, Arnott, Robert W. C, Cartigny, Matthieu J. B, Clare, Michael A, Felletti, Fabrizio, Covault, Jacob A, Girardclos, Stephanie, Hansen, Ernst, Hill, Philip R, Hiscott, Richard N, Hogg, Andrew J, Clarke, John Hughes, Jobe, Zane R, Malgesini, Giuseppe, Mozzato, Alessandro, Naruse, Hajime, Parkinson, Sam, Peel, Frank J, Piper, David J. W, Pope, Ed, Postma, George, Rowley, Pete, Sguazzini, Andrea, Stevenson, Christopher J, Sumner, Esther J, Sylvester, Zoltan, Watts, Camilla, Xu, Jingping

“…Turbidity currents, and other types of submarine sediment density flow, redistribute more sediment across the surface of the Earth than any other sediment flow…”
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