Contourite Research -- Personal reminiscences on the history of contourites -- Methods for contourite research -- Bottom currents -- Abyssal and contour currents -- Deep-water bottom currents and their deposits -- Dynamics of the bottom boundary layer -- Processes -- Sediment entrainment -- Size sorting during transport and deposition of fine sediments: sortable silt and flow speed -- The nature of contourite deposition -- Sediments -- Traction structures in contourites -- Bioturbation and biogenic sedimentary structures in contourites -- Some aspets of diagenesis in contourites -- Contourite facies and the facies model -- Morphology, geometry and palaeoceanographic reconstructions -- Contourite drifts: nature, evolution and controls -- Sediment waves and bedforms -- Seismic expression of contourite depositional systems -- Identification of ancient contourites: problems and paleoceanographic signifance -- Domains -- Abyssal plain contourites -- Continental slope contourites -- Shallow water contourites -- Mixed turbidite-contourite systems -- High latituted contourites -- Importance -- Economic relevance of contourites -- Paleoceanographic significance of contourite drifts -- The significance of contourites for submarine slope stability.