Download or read book Sediment Transfer from Shelf to Deep Water written by Roger M. Slatt and published by AAPG. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of hyperpycnal flows and their deposits, hyperpycnites, has recently emerged as the latest in a long list of hotly debated topics on deep-water sedimentary processes, environments, and deposits. This collection of chapters offers important new insights into the sediment delivery system to deep-marine waters.