turbidite

turbid +‎ -ite

turbidite (countable and uncountable, plural turbidites)

1. (geology) Any sedimentary deposit formed by a turbidity current.
   • 2000, Gerhard Einsele, Sedimentary Basins: Evolution, Facies, and Sediment Budget‎, page 221:

     As with siliciclastic turbidites, the maximum thickness of an individual bed is commonly not attained in the neighborhood of the source area, but at some distance downcurrent (Fig. 5.16b); then it decreases distally.

   • 2007, Bernhard Hubmann, Fossil Corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz 2003:

     They are regarded as distal turbidites and are interbedded with bioclastic limestones and massive breccioid limestones containing blocks of coral colonies and intraclasts that are regarded as proximal turbidites.

• calciturbidite
• turbiditic

• turbidity