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Figure 1: The likely mode of formation of a megaturbidite deposit, such as that described by Rothwell et al.4.

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Nisbet, E., Piper, D. Giant submarine landslides. Nature 392, 329–330 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/32765

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