Turbidites are formed by underwater avalanches at the edge of continental shelves or deep lakes with steep slopes from the shelf along the shoreline. The material that settles at the bottom of the shelf tends to consist of sand and similar coarse material, grading upwards into siltstone which is formed by the fine grained mud that settles more. Credit: Oggmus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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