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Editorial Note
Words of the Editor-in-Chief d A state-of-the-art
academic paper: Submarine fans: A critical
retrospective (1950e2015)
Prof. Dr. G. Shanmugam is a distinguished, pragmatic and
iconoclastic geologist, especially a deep water process
sedimentologist.
This paper entitled Submarine fans: A critical retrospective
(1950e2015) by Prof. Dr. G. Shanmugam published in the 2016
April issue of Journal of Palaeogeography, is not only a research
result and a retrospective of submarine fans worldwide
(1950e2015), but also a guide for future research.
This paper covers a multitude of disciplines dealing with
submarine fans, such as the status quo, history, problems,
classification, turbidity currents and turbidites, trigger con-
trols, modern submarine fans, ancient submarine-fan models,
and many typical case studies. Whereas, far more than these
aspects, as an overview of over 50 years, its critical description
about misuse of terminology and possible confusions are
helpful instructions in theoretical analysis and petroleum
exploration.
This paper is an excellent paper and a tome on submarine
fans in the world and will have a major impact on the research
of deep-water sedimentology. Therefore it will be handed
down from now to the future.
This paper is an unusually long paper.
In the General regulations about submitting manuscripts
to Journal of Palaeogeography, the second item is: No strict
limitation of length for academic manuscript (Please see
Peer review under responsibility of China University of Petroleum (Beijing).
details on cover 3 of the journal). This item is conscientious.
As long as a manuscript is of great academic significance, with
sufficient and informative first-hand data, with new and
innovative viewpoint or theory, and with fine and illustrative
figures, even if it is with length of more than 75 printed pages
and will occupy an entire issue of the journal, like this paper
by Prof. Shanmugam, the Journal of Palaeogeography will be very
glad to consider and accept it, and will review, edit and pub-
lish it swiftly. The paper by Prof. Shanmugam took only eight
months from submission to publication.
The Journal of Palaeogeography strives for excellence and
heartily welcomes high-quality manuscripts of all types, long
or short in length, local or global in scope, conventional or
controversial in theme, for the development and innovation of
ideas on palaeogeography and for the advancement of Earth
science as a whole.
Available online 2 March 2016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jop.2016.02.001
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