Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology: an introduction to the volume 1Bernadette Tessier and Jean-Yves Reynaud
Hydrodynamic modelling of salinity variations in a semi‐engineered mangrove wetland: The microtidal Frog Creek System, Florida 5Jicai Zhang, Dongdong Chu, Ping Wang, Joseph Hughes and Jun Cheng
Temporal changes in river‐mouth bars from L‐band SAR images : A case study in the Mekong River delta, South Vietnam 21Akiko Tanaka, Katsuto Uehara, Toru Tamura, Yoshiki Saito, Van Lap Nguyen and Thi Kim Oanh Ta
Does the Ichnogis method work? A test of prediction performance in a microtidal environment: The Mula di Muggia (Northern Adriatic, Italy) 35Andrea Baucon and Fabrizio Felletti
Suspended sediment dynamics induced by the passage of a tidal bore in an upper estuary 61Lucille Furgerot, Pierre Weill, Dominique Mouazé and Bernadette Tessier
Morphodynamics and sedimentary facies in a tidal‐fluvial transition with tidal bores (the middle Qiantang Estuary, China) 75Daidu Fan, Junbiao Tu, Shuai Shang, Lingling Chen and Yue Zhang
Tidal‐bore deposits in incised valleys, Albian, SW Iberian Ranges, Spain 93Manuela Chamizo‐Borreguero, Nieves Meléndez and Poppe L. de Boer
The Graafwater Formation, Lower Table Mountain Group, Ordovician, South Africa: Re‐interpretation from a tide‐dominated and wave‐dominated depositional system to an alluvial fan/braidplain complex incorporating a number of tidal marine incursions 117Burghard W. Flemming
Tidal versus continental sandy‐muddy flat deposits: Evidence from the Oncala Group (Early Cretaceous, N Spain) 133I. Emma Quijada, Pablo Suarez‐Gonzalez, M. Isabel Benito and Ramón Mas
Do stromatolites need tides to trap ooids? Insights from a Cretaceous system of coastal-wetlands 161Pablo Suarez‐Gonzalez, I. Emma Quijada, M. Isabel Benito and Ramón Mas
Angular and tangential toeset geometry in tidal cross‐strata: An additional feature of current‐modulated deposits 191Domenico Chiarella
Hierarchy of tidal rhythmites from semidiurnal to solstitial cycles: Origin of inclined heterolithic stratifications (IHS) in tidal channels from the Dur At Talah Formation (upper Eocene, Sirte Basin, Libya) and a facies comparison with modern Mont‐Saint‐Michel Bay deposits (France) 203Jonathan Pelletier, Ashour Abouessa, Mathieu Schuster, Philippe Duringer and Jean‐Loup Rubino
Cataclysmic burial of Pennsylvanian Period coal swamps in the Illinois Basin: Hypertidal sedimentation during Gondwanan glacial melt‐water pulses 217Allen W. Archer, Scott Elrick, W. John Nelson and William A. DiMichele
Tidal ravinement surfaces in the Pleistocene macrotidal tide‐dominated Dong Nai estuary, southern Vietnam 233Toshiyuki Kitazawa and Naomi Murakoshi
Tidally‐modulated infilling of a large coastal plain during the Holocene; the case of the French Flemish Coastal plain 243José Margotta, Alain Trentesaux and Nicolas Tribovillard
Sedimentology of a transgressive mixedenergy (wave/tide‐dominated) estuary, Upper Devonian Geirud Formation (Alborz Basin, northern Iran) 261Mahmoud Sharafi, Sergio G. Longhitano, Asadollah Mahboubi, Reza Moussavi‐ Harami and Hosien Mosaddegh
Sedimentary facies and Late Pleistocene‐ Holocene evolution of the northern Jiangsucoast and radial tidal ridge field, South Yellow Sea, China 293Yong Yin, Peihong Jia and Qing Li
Facies, architecture and stratigraphic occurrence of headland‐attached tidal sand ridges in the Roda Formation, Northern Spain 313Kain J. Michaud and Robert W. Dalrymple
Index 343