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The Amazon Deep-Sea Fan began to form in the Early Miocene and is characterized by a highly meandering distributary channel system. On the middle fan, these leveed channels coalesce to form two broad levee complexes. Older, now buried levee complexes are also observed within the fan. These levee complexes grow through channel migration, branching, and avulsion. Probably only one or two channels are active at any given time. Sediments reach the fan only during glacio-eustatic low stands of sea level. Coarse sediments largely by-pass the upper and middle fan via the channels and are deposited on the lower fan.
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Damuth, J.E., Flood, R.D. Morphology, sedimentation processes, and growth pattern of the Amazon Deep-Sea Fan. Geo-Marine Letters 3, 109–117 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02462455
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