Principles of Tidal Sedimentology

23.08.2016

Englisch

9789401777254

Springer Netherland

Nein

621

Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2012

Taschenbuch

Richard A. Davis, Jr., is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, with 40 years of teaching experience, last 32 years at University of South Florida, USA. He has been visiting professor at many universities. He authored and edited 14 books (2 of them for Springer) and numerous publications. He is a member of Geological Society of America, the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), and American Shore and Beach Preservation Association. His major specialization is coastal geology, especially barrier islands systems, inlets, tidal environments and beaches.

barrier islands, carbonate, coastal, estuaries, sedimentology, tidal, marine and freshwater sciences, mineral resources

RBGB - Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie RBK - Hydrologie und die Hydrosphäre RGB - Physische Geographie und Topographie RBGG - Petrologie (Gesteinskunde), Petrografie und Mineralogie

Preface 1.Tidal Constituents of Modern and Ancient Tidal Rhythmites: Criteria for Recognition and Analysis 2. Principles of Sediment Transport Applicable in Tidal Environments 3. Tidal Signatures and Their Preservation Potential in Stratigraphic Sequences 4. Tidal Ichnology 5. Processes, Morphodynamics and Faces of Tide-Dominated Estuaries 6.Stratigraphy of Tide-Dominated Estuaries 7. Tide-Dominated Deltas 8. Salt Marsh Sedimentation 9. Open Coast Tidal Flats 10. Siliclastic Back-Barrier Tidal Flats 11. Tidal Channels on Tidal Flats and Marshes 12. Morphology and Facies Architecture of Tidal Inlets and Tidal Deltas 13. Shallow-Marine Tidal Deposits 14. Deep-Water Tidal Sedimentology 15. Precambrian Tidal Facies 16. Hypertidal Facies from the Pennsylvanian Period: East and West Interior Coal Basins, USA 17. Tidal Deposits of the Campanian Western Interior Seaway (WIS), Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, USA 18. Contrasting Styles of Siliciclastic Tidal Deposits in Developing Thrust Sheet-Top-Basins - the Lower Eocene of the Central Pyrenees (Spain) 19. Holocene Tidal Flats 20. Tidal Sands of the Bahamas Archipelago 21. Ancient Carbonate Tidalites Index.

260 mm

19.3 cm