This book presents a comprehensive, contemporary review of tidal environments and deposits. Individual chapters, each written by world-class experts, cover the full spectrum of coastal, shallow-marine and even deep-marine settings where tidal action influences or controls sediment movement and deposition. Both siliciclastic and carbonate deposits are covered. Various chapters examine the dynamics of sediment transport by tides, and the morphodynamics of tid...
Innehållsförteckning
Preface.- 1.Tidal Constituents of Modern and Ancient Tidal Rhythmites: Criteria for Recognition and Analysis.- 2. Principles of Sediment Transport Applic...
Om författaren
Richard A. Davis, Jr., is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, with 40 years of teaching experience, last 32 years at University of South Florida, USA. He has been visit...