My experience is that even in sands

My experience is that even in sandstones withnearly uniform grain size, there are enough featuresindicating plastic rheology and laminar flow conditions to interpret them as deposits of sandy debrisflows. The practice of using the absence of normalgrading as the basis for interpreting turbidites defiesthe very foundation of geologic interpretation basedon observation. The problem with this twisted logicis that it allows one to interpret a variety of deepwater deposits as turbidites, irrespective of whetherthe bed shows normal grading or not (Fig. 6).