Turbidites are generally deep water deposits of sediment formed from turbid flow. There are numerous facies or areas with grain size variation across a particular turbidite suggesting various finite mechanisms. Modern day turbidites are well documented off the west coast of North America and often are coincident with earthquakes which trigger the initial movement.
Turbidites make up some of the more prolific oil fields with giant fields (>500 MMB) in Brae, Britannian, Claymore, Forties, Foinanaven and Schiehallion in the UK North Sea, Huntington Beach, Kopanoar, Long Beach, Midway/Sunset, Ursa, Braeberry, Wilmington in North America, Edop, Hungo, Kulto, Landana, Bonga in Africa and Marlim, Albacore, Barracuda, Patao, Roncador in Latin America (to name a few).
There is a bit of controversy as of late with regards to many of these deposits, some authors arguing that the deposits are formed more likely in debris flow environments rather than ones with turbidity currents. In reality this is a bit of hair splitting given the range of facies in classic turbidite deposits does include debris or gravity flows. You can read more about it herehttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/228492617_The_Bouma_Sequence_and_the_turbidite_mind_set