1 I said, "But, Jim, we have one that appears to be erosional and 



2 one that appears to be depositional and we don't know what to do in 



3 those, so why don't we have some kind of a meeting where we discuss what 



4 the implications of that are and see if we can resolve it for those two 



5 areas and then we'll decide?" 



6 The first thing that happened yesterday was, "Well, some places 



7 are erosional and some places are depositional." So, I'm not sure that 



8 that is something that we can really ever really resolve completely. 



9 DR. GRASSLE: I think flux of materials in that, too--rates of 



10 accumulation and flux of materials. I guess that is implied in the 



11 rates of accumulation. 



12 DR. AURAND: Let's see, rates of accumulation, flux of materials, 



13 and deposition are poorly known and this inhibits ability to--to what? 



14 DR. GRASSLE: Make definite conclusions. 



15 DR. AURAND: Hence, the qualifiers. Anything else? Any minority 



16 opinions? Does anyone want to say anything about the process, for the 



17 record? 



18 DR. VALENTINE: I'd like to talk about a need. In our discussion 



19 of the characteristics of canyons, I think it started to become clear 



20 that some of these features that are called canyons out there might not 



21 fit the criteria of what we think of as canyons, based on their shape 



22 and their contained biota. Some of them may be more like the upper 



23 slope and shelf edge. 



24 We really don't have much information on these small canyons. 



25 Very few have even been sampled, so conceivably, if we could obtain more 



26 information, some of these could be removed from the canyon exclusions 



27 list. We can talk more about that tomorrow. 



28 DR. GRASSLE: Some of the gullies may be the most depositional 



29 sites out there. 



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