Tsunamiites : features and implications /: features and implications. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tsunemasa Shiki, Yoshinobu Tsuji, Teiji Tamazaki, Futoshi Nanayama.
• Editors: Shiki, Tsunemasa; Tsuji, Yoshinobu; Yamazaki, Teiji; Nanayama, Futoshi
• Contents: 1. Introduction: why a book tsunamiites; 2. The Term “Tsunamiites”; 3. Tsunamis and Tsunami Sedimentology; 4. Bedforms and Sedimentary Structures Characterizing Tsunami Deposits; 5. Tsunami depositional Processes Reflecting the waveform in a Small Bay: Interpretation from the Grain-size Distribution and Sedimentary Structure; 6. Deposits of the 1992 Nicaragua Tsunami; 7. Sedimentary Characteristics and depositional Processes of Onshore Tsunami Deposits: An Example of Sedimentation Associated with the 12 July 1993 Hokkaido-Nansei-oki Earthquake Tsunami; 8. Distribution and Significance of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Deposits: Initial Results from Thailand and Sri Lanka; 9. Thickness and Grain-Size Distribution of Indian Ocean Tsunami Deposits at Khao Lak and Phra Thong Island, South-western Thailand; 10. Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku-oki Tsunami: Implications for Paleo-Tsunami Research; 11. Offshore Tractive Current Deposition: The forgotten Tsunami Sedimentation Process; 12. The geological tsunami traces of the 1700 Cascadia Giant Earthquake of North America and Descriptive Records in Old Documents in Japan; 13. Deep-Sea Homogenites: Sedimentary Expression of a Prehistoric Megatsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean; 14. Tsunami-Related Sedimentary Properties of Mediterranean Homogenites as an Example of deep-Sea Tsunamiites; 15. Volcanic-Induced Tsunami and Tsunamiites; 16. Tsunamiites―Conceptual Descriptions and a Possible case at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Pernambuce Basin, Nortjheastern Brazil; 17. Deep-Sea Tsunami deposits in the Proto-Caribbean Sea at the Cretaceous / Tertiary Boundary; 18. The Genesis of Ocean Impact Craters and Impact Generated Tsunami Deposit; 19. Tsunami Boulder Deposits; 20. Characteristic Features of Tsunamiites; 21. Sedimentology of Tsunamiits Reflecting Chaotic Events in the Geological Record―Significance and Problems; 22. Introduction to a Tsunami-deposits Database
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 551.303; Sedimentation and deposition; Tsunamis
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128239407
• Related ISBNs: 9780128239391
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