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Tsunamiites: Features and Implications, Second Edition, 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 research.
New to this edition: discussion of the impact of 2011 tsunami in Northern Japan as well as additional coverage of offshore tractive current deposition and deposition of boulders.
List of 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
About the author
Tsunemasa Shiki is Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University in Japan. Studies of subjects in sedimentology, marine Geology, disaster prevention.Yoshinobu Tsuji, Head of Institute of Studies of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Prevention. Formerly, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Studies of Tsunami sediments with special attention to their historical documents.T. Yamazaki, Emeritus Professor of Osaka Kyoiku University, Sedimentology, Volcano-stratigraphy, Lithology, Toyonaka City, Osaka, JapanChief of Senior Researcher at the Geological Survey of Japan, AIST and visiting Professor at the Center for Marine Environment Studies, Kumamoto University, Japan.
Professor Nanayama specializes in the modern sedimentary process, sedimentary geology, sedimentary petrology, and earth science.
