A brief review on 7 papers from the special issue of “The environmental significance of soft-sediment deformation” of the Sedimentary Geology 344 (2016)

This paper is not only the author's brief review on 7 papers selected from the special issue of the Sedimentary Geology 344 (2016), but also an invitation to geologists worldwide to write papers for a new special issue of “The origins of SSDS” of the Journal of Palaeogeography which is planned to be published in 2018.