Common facies models of turbidite deposits are based on idealized sequences of turbiditeunits, which are assumed to reflect the depositional processes of a decelerating turbidity current.We show how suites of turbidite units, i.e., distinct turbidite facies associations thatare easily described from core and outcrop, may characterize the entire range of large-scaledynamics of turbidity currents, enabling estimates of their densimetric Froude number (Fr;subcritical versus supercritical) and suspension fall-out rate (stratified versus nonstratifiedflows). The linking of facies associations with large-scale flow dynamics resolves process-facieslinks that were hitherto unresolved by the common turbidite facies models.