Tsunamiites - Features and Implications

Tsunemasa Shiki (Edited by), Yoshinobu Tsuji (Edited by), K. Minoura (Edited by), Teiji Yamazaki (Edited by)

9780444515520, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 20 June 2008

432 pages
24 x 16.5 x 2.7 cm, 0.98 kg

This book is an overview of the state-of-the art developments in sedimentology of tsunami-induced and tsunami-affected deposits, namely tsunamiites. It also highlights new problems and issues calling for additional investigation, and provides insight into the direction for future tsunamiite researches.

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.

Subject Areas: Oceanography [seas RBKC], Geology & the lithosphere [RBG], Earth sciences [RB], Geophysics [PHVG]