oa Deep-Water Canyons in Circum-Mediterranean Regions - From Erosional Vacuities to Entrenched Meanders

The origin and morphology of deep-water canyons bas been the subject of many oceanographic expeditions since the late 1960s. Their recognition at outcrop has been inferred in many turbidite basins on the basis of evidence for prolonged periods of sediment bypass, usually during tectonically driven periods of basin margin reconfiguration, or the presence of attenuated packages of clast-supported gravels in association with deep-water shales.