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Intertidal Deposits: River Mouths, Tidal Flats, and Coastal Lagoons combines the authors personal and professional experience with the mass of available literature to present a cohesive overview of intertidal deposits and the widely diverse conditions of their formation worldwide.
List of contents
Introduction
Worldwide Distribution of Intertidal Areas
Tides
Zonation
Vegetation
Benthic Fauna
Sediment
Macrotidal Deposits
The Wash (North Sea)
Baie du Mont - St. Michel
Bassin d'Arcachon
Macrotidal River Estuaries, Rias, and Bays in Northwest Europe
Mozambique
Madagascar West Coast
Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay) and the Gulf of Kachchh (Kutch)
Ganges - Brahmaputra (Meghna) River Mouths
Irrawaddy River Delta
West Coast Korea
China: Jiangsu Coast
China: Chang Jiang River Mouth and Hangzhou Bay
China Southeast Coast: Intertidal Deposits in Embayments
Taiwan West Coast
Red River Mouths
King Sound, Cambridge Gulf (Northwest Australia)
North Australia
Broad Sound (Queensland)
Cook Inlet, Glacier Bay (Alaska)
Queen Charlotte Islands
Colorado River Delta Area
Bay of Fundy
St. Lawrence Estuary
Hudson Strait - Ungava Bay - Baffin Island
San Antonio Bay (Argentina)
San Sebastian Bay (Tierra del Fuego)
Columbia - Ecuador
Macrotidal Deposits
Mesotidal Deposits
The Wadden Sea
Mesotidal River Estuaries and Rias in Western Europe
Guinea-Bissau - Guinea
Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea
Tanzania and Kenya
Northwest Persian Gulf
Indus River Delta and Rann of Kutch
Northern Gulf of Thailand
West Coast of Burma (Myanmar), Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia (Andaman Sea Coast)
Mekong River Mouth
The Philippines
Indonesia
Gulf of Papua
Gulf of Carpentaria and Northern Queensland
Firth of Thames, New Zealand
Bristol Bay, Alaska
Fraser River Delta
Yaquina Bay, San Francisco Bay
The U.S. East Coast: Georgia, South Carolina, Maine
Southern Hudson Bay, Labrador
The South America North Coast: Amazon River Mouth - Guyanas - Orinoco Delta
South America East Coast
Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Mesotidal Deposits
Microtidal Deposits
Dyfi Estuary, Wales
The White Sea, Northern Siberia, The Gulf of Anadyr, and the Sea of Okhot
About the author
Eisma Doeke
Summary
Intertidal Deposits: River Mouths, Tidal Flats, and Coastal Lagoons combines the authors personal and professional experience with the mass of available literature to present a cohesive overview of intertidal deposits and the widely diverse conditions of their formation worldwide.
