Tidal Signatures in Modern and Ancient Sediments (IAS Special Publication 24)

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 8
Modern Tidal Processes and
Sediment Dynamics......Page 10
What is a bedload parting?......Page 11
Hydraulic roughness of tidal channel bedforms,
Westerschelde estuary, The Netherlands......Page 27
Bedforms on the Middelkerke Bank, southern North Sea......Page 41
Storm-enhanced sand transport in a macrotidal setting,
Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada......Page 60
Modern Tide-dominated Environments
and Facies......Page 76
Occupation of a relict distributary system by a new tidal inlet, Quatre Bayou Pass, Louisiana......Page 77
Morphological response characteristics of the
Zoutkamperlaag, Frisian inlet (The Netherlands),
to a sudden reduction in basin area......Page 91
Sedimentological implications of morphodynamic changes in
the ebb-tidal delta, the inlet and the drainage basin
of the Zoutkamperlaag tidal inlet (Dutch Wadden Sea),
induced by a sudden decrease in the tidal prism......Page 106
Stratigraphy of a combined wave- and
tide-dominated intertidal sand body: Martens Plate,
East Frisian Wadden Sea, Germany......Page 125
Sedimentation in the mesotidal Rias Bajas of Galicia
(north-western Spain): Ensenada de San Simon, Inner Ria de Vigo......Page 137
Holocene estuarine facies along the mesotidal coast of
Huelva, south-western Spain......Page 154
The tidal character of fluvial sediments of the modern
Mahakam River delta, Kalimantan, Indonesia......Page 174
Tidal lamination and facies development in the
macrotidal flats of Namyang Bay, west coast of Korea......Page 185
Patterns of sedimentation in the macrotidal
Fly River delta, Papua New Guinea......Page 194
Foraminifers as facies indicators in a tropical,
macrotidal environment: Torres Strait-Fly River delta,
Papua New Guinea......Page 213
Submarine cementation in tide-generated
bioclastic sand dunes: epicontinental seaway, Torres Strait,
north-east Australia......Page 224
Ancient Tidal Processes and
Sediment Dynamics......Page 236
Reconstruction of tidal inlet and channel dimensions in the Frisian Middelzee, a former tidal basin in the Dutch Wadden Sea......Page 237
Comparison of ancient tidal rhythmites (Carboniferous of
Kansas and Indiana, USA) with modern analogues
(the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, France)......Page 257
Ancient Tide-dominated Environments
and Facies......Page 270
Sequence stratigraphy of the late Pleistocene Palaeo-Tokyo Bay: barrier islands and associated tidal delta and inlet......Page 271
Diurnal inequality pattern of the tide in the upper
Pleistocene Palaeo-Tokyo Bay: reconstruction from tidal
deposits and growth-lines of fossil bivalves......Page 285
Climbing ripples recording the change of tidal current
condition in the middle Pleistocene Shimosa Group, Japan......Page 297
Internal geometry of ancient tidal bedforms
revealed using ground penetrating radar......Page 308
Tide-dominated sedimentation in the upper Tertiary
succession of the Sitapahar anticline, Bangladesh......Page 324
Evidence of tidal influence in the Murree Group of rocks of
the J ammo Himalaya, India......Page 337
Index......Page 346
Plates......Page 352