Tsunamiites

Features and Implications

Tsunemasa Shiki, Yoshinobu Tsuji, Teiji Yamazaki, Futoshi Nanayama, T. Yamazaki

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9780128239407
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geophysics

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. - Includes a comprehensive overview of new developments in tsunamiites from leading experts - Covers future trends and development needs for researching sediments from tsunamis - New edition includes coverage and lessons learned from the 2011tsunami in Northern Japan

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Preface to the second edition
• Chapter 1. Introduction: why a Book on Tsunamiites
• Chapter 2. The term “Tsunamiite”
• Chapter 3. Tsunamis and tsunami sedimentology
• Chapter 4. Bedforms and sedimentary structures characterizing tsunami deposits
• Chapter 5. Tsunami depositional processes reflecting the waveform in a small bay: interpretation from the grain-size distribution and sedimentary structures
• Chapter 6. Deposits of the 1992 Nicaragua tsunami
• Chapter 7. Sedimentary characteristics and depositional processes of onshore tsunami deposits: an example of sedimentation associated with the July 12, 1993 Hokkaido-Nansei-Oki earthquake tsunami
• Chapter 8. Distribution and significance of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami deposits: initial results from Thailand and Sri Lanka
• Chapter 9. Thickness and grain-size distribution of Indian Ocean tsunami deposits at Khao Lak and Phra Thong Island, South-Western Thailand
• Chapter 10. Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami: implications for Paleotsunami research
• Chapter 11. An overview on offshore tsunami deposits
• Chapter 12. Combined investigation of tradition archives and sedimentary relics of tsunami hazards – with reference to the Great 1700 Cascadia tsunami and other examples
• Chapter 13. Deep-sea homogenites: sedimentary expression of a prehistoric megatsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean
• Chapter 14. Tsunami-related sedimentary properties of mediterranean homogenites as an example of deep-sea tsunamiite
• Chapter 15. Volcanism-induced tsunamis and tsunamiites
• Chapter 16. Tsunamiites—conceptual descriptions and a possible example at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in the Pernambuco Basin, Northeastern Brazil
• Chapter 17. Deep-sea tsunami deposits in the proto-Caribbean sea at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
• Chapter 18. The genesis of oceanic impact craters and impact-generated tsunami deposits
• Chapter 19. Tsunami boulder deposits – a strongly debated topic in paleo-tsunami research
• Chapter 20. Characteristic features of tsunamiites
• Chapter 21. Sedimentology of tsunamiites reflecting chaotic events in the geological record – significance and problems
• Selected bibliography
• Index