Tidal Deposits: A Casebook of Recent Examples and Fossil Counterparts

Front Matter....Pages N2-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-3
German North Sea Tidal Flats....Pages 5-12
Intertidal Flat Deposits of the Wash, Western Margin of the North Sea....Pages 13-20
Tidal Deposits, Mont Saint-Michel Bay, France....Pages 21-30
Tidal-Flat Complex, Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia....Pages 31-38
A Transgressive Sequence of Late Holocene Epoch Tidal Environmental Lithosomes Along the Delaware Coast....Pages 39-46
Intertidal Sediments from the South Shore of Cobequid Bay, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada....Pages 47-55
Tidal-Flat Sediments of the Colorado River Delta, Northwestern Gulf of California....Pages 57-65
Facies Characteristics of Laguna Madre Wind-Tidal Flats....Pages 67-73
Inlet Sequence Formed by the Migration of Fire Island Inlet, Long Island, New York....Pages 75-83
Sequences in Inshore Subtidal Deposits....Pages 85-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-92
Lower Jurassic Tidal-Flat Deposits, Bornholm, Denmark....Pages 93-101
Shorelines of Weak Tidal Activity: Upper Devonian Catskill Formation, Central Pennsylvania....Pages 103-108
Miocene-Pliocene Beach and Tidal Deposits, Southern New Jersey....Pages 109-116
Tidal Sand Flat Deposits in Lower Cretaceous Dakota Group Near Denver, Colorado....Pages 117-125
Tidal Origin of Parts of the Karheen Formation (Lower Devonian), Southeastern Alaska....Pages 127-133
Clastic Coastal Environments in Ordovician Molasse, Central Appalachians....Pages 135-143
Tidalites in the Eureka Quartzite (Ordovician), Eastern California and Nevada....Pages 145-151
Tidal Deposits in the Monkman Quartzite (Lower Ordovician) Northeastern British Columbia, Canada....Pages 153-161
Tidal Deposits in the Zabriskie Quartzite (Cambrian), Eastern California and Western Nevada....Pages 163-169
Paleotidal Range Sequences, Middle Member, Wood Canyon Formation (Late Precambrian), Eastern California and Western Nevada....Pages 171-177
Front Matter....Pages 91-92
A Pennsylvanian Interdistributary Tidal-Flat Deposit....Pages 179-185
Sedimentary Sequences of Lower Devonian Sediments (Uan Caza Formation), South Tunisia....Pages 187-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-199
Tidal and Storm Deposits, Northwestern Andros Island, Bahamas....Pages 201-208
Recent Tidal Deposits, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Arabian Gulf....Pages 209-214
Prograding Tidal-Flat Sequences: Hutchison Embayment, Shark Bay, Western Australia....Pages 215-222
Carbonate Sedimentation in an Arid Zone Tidal Flat, Nilemah Embayment, Shark Bay, Western Australia....Pages 223-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-234
Tidal Deposits, Dachstein Limestone of the North-Alpine Triassic....Pages 235-242
Carbonate Tidal-Flat Deposits of the Early Devonian Manlius Formation of New York State....Pages 243-250
Tidal-Flat Facies in Carbonate Cycles, Pillara Formation (Devonian), Canning Basin, Western Australia....Pages 251-256
Shoaling-Upward Shale-to-Dolomite Cycles in the Rocknest Formation (Lower Proterozoic), Northwest Territories, Canada....Pages 257-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-268
Carbonate Tidal Flats of the Grand Canyon Cambrian....Pages 269-277
Peritidal Lithologies of Cambrian Carbonate Islands, Carrara Formation, Southern Great Basin....Pages 279-288
Peritidal Origin of Cambrian Carbonates in Northwest Spain....Pages 289-298
Intertidal and Associated Deposits of the Prairie du Chien Group (Lower Ordovician) in the Upper Mississippi Valley....Pages 299-306
Shoaling and Tidal Deposits that Accumulated Marginal to the Proto-Atlantic Ocean: The Tribes Hill Formation (Lower Ordovician) of the Mohawk Valley, New York....Pages 307-314
Ordovician Tidalites in the Unmetamorphosed Sedimentary Fill of the Brent Meteorite Crater,Ontario....Pages 315-323
Mississippian Tidal Deposits, North-Central New Mexico....Pages 325-331
Front Matter....Pages 333-334
Tidal Sediments and Their Evolution in the Bathonian Carbonates of Burgundy, France....Pages 335-343
Evidences of Tidal Environment Deposition in the Calcare Massiccio Formation (Central Apennines—Lower Lias)....Pages 345-353
Upper Jurassic Oolite Shoals, Dorset Coast, England....Pages 355-362
Front Matter....Pages 333-334
Some Examples of Shoaling Deposits from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal....Pages 363-371
Carbonate-Sulfate Intertidalites of the Windsor Group (Middle Carboniferous) Maritime Provinces, Canada....Pages 373-380
Carboniferous Tidal-Flat Deposits of the North Flank, Northeastern Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska....Pages 381-386
Intertidal and Supratidal Deposits Within Isolated Upper Devonian Buildups, Alberta....Pages 387-395
Carbonate Coastal Environments in Ordovician Shoaling-Upward Sequence, Southern Appalachians....Pages 397-405
Back Matter....Pages 407-431