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Edited By
Tsunemasa Shiki, Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
Yoshinobu Tsuji, Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan
K. Minoura, Professor, Tohoku University, Japan
T. Yamazaki
Audience
Scientists and Researchers of various fields with an interest in the sedimentology of tsunami records.
Contents
Introduction - why a book on tsunamiites. (T. Shiki, k. Minoura, Y. Tsuji and T. Yamazaki). The term "tsunamiite" (T. Shiki and T. Yamazaki).
Tsunamis and tsunami sedimentology. (D. Sugawara, K. Minoura and F. Imamura). Sedimentary characteristics and depositional processes
of onshore tsunami deposits : An Example of sedimentation associated with the July 12, 1993 Bedforms and sedimentry structures characterizing
tsunami deposits (O. Fujiwara). Sedimentary characteristics and depositional processes of onshore tsunami deposits: an example of
sedimentation associated with the July 12, 1993 Hokkaido-Nansei-oki earthquake (F. Nanayama).
Deposits of the 1992 Nicaragua Tsunami
(B. Higman and J. Bourgeois). Distribution and significances of the Indian Ocean tsunami deposits - Initial results from Thailand and
Srilanka (K. Goto). Thickness and grain-size distribution of Indian Ocean tsunami deposits
distributed in the Khao Lak and Phra Thong
Island, south-eastern Thailand (S. Fujino, H. Naruse, A. Suphawajruksakul, T. Jarupangsakul, M.Maruyama and N. Ichihara). Tsunami depositional
processes reflecting the waveform in a small bay - Interpretation from ther grain-size distribution and sedimentary structures.(O. Fijiwara
and T. Kamataki). Offshore tractive current deposition: the forgotten tsunami sedimentation process (A. Dawson and I. Stewart). Volcanism-induced
tsunamis and tsunamiites (Y. Nishimura). Deep-sea homogenites : Sedimentay expression of a prehistric megatsunami in the eastern Mediterranean.(M.
B. Cita). Tsunami-affected sedimentary properties of the Mediterranean homogenites as an Modern example of deep-sea tsunamiite (T. Shiki
and M.B. Cita). A possible tsunamiite at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in Pernambco basin, northeastern Brazil - Reappraisal of field
data and conceptual descriptions (G. A. Albertao and P. P. Martins)
Deep-sea tsunami deposits in the Proto-Caribbean sea at the Cretaceous/Tertiary
boundary (K. Goto, R.Tada, E.Tajika, and T. Matsui). The generation of oceanic impact craters and impact-generated tsunami deposits.
(K. Goto). Tsunami boulder deposits. (A. Scheffers). Characteristic features of tsunamiites.(T. Shiki, T. Tachibana, O. Fujiwara, K.
Goto, F. Nanayama and T. Yamazaki). Sedimentology of tsunamiites reflecting chaotic events in the geological records - significance
and problems.(T. Shiki and T. Tachibana). Introduction to a tsunami deposits data base (B. Keating and C. Helesley and M.Wanink). BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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Hardbound, 432 pages, publication date: JUN-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51552-0
ISBN-10: 0-444-51552-6
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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