Tsunamiites : features and implications /: features and implications. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by T. Shiki [and three others].
• Other Names: Shiki, Tsunemasa, 1929-
• Contents: Introduction - why a book on tsunamiites; The term "tsunamiite"; Tsunamis and tsunami sedimentology; Sedimentary characteristics and depositional processes of onshore tsunami deposits; Deposits of the 1992 Nicaragua Tsunami; Distribution and significances of the Indian Ocean tsunami deposits; Thickness and grain-size distribution of Indian Ocean tsunami deposits distributed in the Khao Lak and Phra Thong Island, south-eastern Thailand; Tsunami depositional processes reflecting the waveform in a small bay; Offshore tractive current deposition: the forgotten tsunami sedimentation process; Volcanism-induced tsunamis and tsunamiites; Deep-sea homogenites; Tsunami-affected sedimentary properties of the Mediterranean homogenites as an Modern example of deep-sea tsunamiite; A possible tsunamiite at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in Pernambco basin, northeastern Brazil; Deep-sea tsunami deposits in the Proto-Caribbean sea at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary; The generation of oceanic impact craters and impact-generated tsunami deposits; Tsunami boulder deposits; Characteristic features of tsunamiites; Sedimentology of tsunamiites reflecting chaotic events in the geological records.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Elsevier Science
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (432 pages)
• Subjects: 552/.5; Turbidites; Tsunamis; Sedimentation and deposition
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080558912; 0080558917
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