Figure
3. Features of a typical retrograde failed shelf margin in which slump blocks
are a large part of the fill. The most obvious discontinuity is the
post-collapse unconformity, but the collapse detachment is equally important.
The latter surface has never been exposed at the sea floor, and therefore is a
structural rather than stratigraphic feature. Note the possibility for
stratigraphic inversion and sub-discontinuity traps.