But Glenn, see Cook, H.E., P. N. McDaniel, E. W .Mountjoy and L. C. Pray. 1972
Allochthonous carbonate debris flows at Devonian bank ('reef") margins,
Alberta, Canada. Bull Can Pet Geol 20:439-497. In this paper and in
others by the same authors, they repeatedly place what clearly are reefs in
the geological sense into the debris flow categories where I think they
belong in terms of their sed characteristics and placement. All of the
features you cite in favor of reefs are present in these mounds. Yet they
are misrepresented as such, according to Cook.
Art
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