Tsunamiites: Features and Implications

ISBN-13: 9780128239391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 484 str.

Tsunemasa Shiki; Yoshinobu Tsuji; Teiji Yamazaki

Spis treści

1. Introduction: why a book tsunamiites2. The Term "Tsunamiites”3. Tsunamis and Tsunami Sedimentology4. Bedforms and Sedimentary Structures Characterizing Tsunami Deposits5. Tsunami depositional Processes Reflecting the waveform in a Small Bay: Interpretation from the Grain-size Distribution and Sedimentary Structure6. Deposits of the 1992 Nicaragua Tsunami7. Sedimentary Characteristics and depositional Processes of Onshore Tsunami Deposits: An Example of Sedimentation Associated with the 12 July 1993 Hokkaido-Nansei-oki Earthquake Tsunami8. Distribution and Significance of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Deposits: Initial Results from Thailand and Sri Lanka9. Thickness and Grain-Size Distribution of Indian Ocean Tsunami Deposits at Khao Lak and Phra Thong Island, South-western Thailand10. Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku-oki Tsunami: Implications for Paleo-Tsunami Research11. Offshore Tractive Current Deposition: The forgotten Tsunami Sedimentation Process12. The geological tsunami traces of the 1700 Cascadia Giant Earthquake of North America and Descriptive Records in Old Documents in Japan13. Deep-Sea Homogenites: Sedimentary Expression of a Prehistoric Megatsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean14. Tsunami-Related Sedimentary Properties of Mediterranean Homogenites as an Example of deep-Sea Tsunamiites15. Volcanic-Induced Tsunami and Tsunamiites16. Tsunamiites?Conceptual Descriptions and a Possible case at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Pernambuce Basin,Nortjheastern Brazil17. Deep-Sea Tsunami deposits in the Proto-Caribbean Sea at the Cretaceous / Tertiary Boundary18. The Genesis of Ocean Impact Craters and Impact Generated Tsunami Deposit19. Tsunami Boulder Deposits20. Characteristic Features of Tsunamiites21. Sedimentology of Tsunamiits Reflecting Chaotic Events in the Geological Record?Significance and Problems22. Introduction to a Tsunami-deposits Database