TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- CONTRIBUTIONS TO MODERN AND ANCIENT TIDAL SEDIMENTOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE VOLUME -- HISTORY OF THE 'TIDALITES' CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS -- OUTLINE OF THE PRESENT VOLUME -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 1 HYDRODYNAMIC MODELLING OF SALINITY VARIATIONS IN A SEMI-ENGINEERED MANGROVE WETLAND: THE MICROTIDAL FROG CREEK SYSTEM, FLORIDA -- INTRODUCTION -- DATASETS AND STUDY AREA -- STUDY AREA -- DATA SOURCES -- PROPOSED ENGINEERED PONDS -- MODEL DEVELOPMENT -- MODEL DESCRIPTION -- MODEL SETUP -- MODEL CALIBRATION -- RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION -- SCENARIOS OF NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS -- RESPONSE UNDER DIFFERENT INFLOW CONDITIONS -- RESPONSE OF SALINITY RECOVERY TIME -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2 TEMPORAL CHANGES IN RIVER-MOUTH BARS FROM L-BAND SAR IMAGES: A CASE STUDY IN THE MEKONG RIVER DELTA, SOUTH VIETNAM -- INTRODUCTION -- REGIONAL SETTING -- STUDY AREA -- SAR DATA AND ANALYSIS -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- TIDAL HEIGHTS AND BAR AREA EXTENTS -- ANNUAL CHANGES OF RIVER-MOUTH BARS -- SEASONAL CHANGES OF RIVER-MOUTH BARS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 DOES THE ICHNOGIS METHOD WORK? A TEST OF PREDICTION PERFORMANCE IN A MICROTIDAL ENVIRONMENT: THE MULA DI MUGGIA (NORTHERN ADRIATIC, ITALY) -- INTRODUCTION -- GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING -- METHODOLOGY -- RELIABILITY TEST OF THE GRADO MODEL -- ADDITIONAL DATA -- DEVELOPMENT OF THE GRADO MODEL -- RESULTS -- ICHNOASSOCIATIONS -- LOW BIOTURBATION ICHNOASSOCIATION (FIG. 5A) -- THALASSINOIDES ICHNOASSOCIATION (FIG. 5B) -- ARENICOLITES/SKOLITHOS ICHNOASSOCIATION (FIGS 5C AND 6) -- MACANOPSIS ICHNOASSOCIATION (FIG. 7A) -- 'SQUAT BURROWS' (FIG. 7B).

PARMAICHNUS ICHNOASSOCIATION (FIG. 7C) -- PREDICTED VS. OBSERVED SCENARIO -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4 SUSPENDED SEDIMENT DYNAMICS INDUCED BY THE PASSAGE OF A TIDAL BORE IN AN UPPER ESTUARY -- INTRODUCTION -- ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING -- THE MONT SAINT-MICHEL ESTUARY -- THE SÉE RIVER CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY AT THE MEASUREMENT SITE -- SEDIMENT CHARACTERISTICS -- MATERIAL AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- CURRENT VELOCITY AND WATER DEPTH -- EVOLUTION OF SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 MORPHODYNAMICS AND SEDIMENTARY FACIES IN A TIDAL-FLUVIAL TRANSITION WITH TIDAL BORES (THE MIDDLE QIANTANG ESTUARY, CHINA) -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDY AREA -- METHODS -- MORPHODYNAMICS OF THE MIDDLE ESTUARY WITH TIDAL BORES -- SEDIMENTARY FACIES OF THE MIDDLE ESTUARY WITH TIDAL BORES -- SEDIMENTARY FEATURES OF THE WSG TIDAL FLATS -- SEDIMENTARY FEATURES OF THE DJS TIDAL FLATS -- GRAIN-SIZE OF DJS INTERTIDAL DEPOSITS -- DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR RECOGNIZING TIDAL-BORE DEPOSITS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6 TIDAL-BORE DEPOSITS IN INCISED VALLEYS, ALBIAN, SW IBERIAN RANGES, SPAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- GEOLOGICAL SETTING -- FACIES ANALYSIS -- TIDAL FLAT DEPOSITS (TF) -- TIDAL BORE DEPOSITS (TB) -- AEOLIAN DEPOSITS (A) -- EPHEMERAL ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS WITH TIDAL INFLUENCE (EA) -- OVERBANK/EPHEMERAL FLOODPLAIN DEPOSITS (OB) -- FACIES ARCHITECTURE -- UNIT 1 -- UNIT 2 -- UNIT 3 -- PALAEOGRAPHICAL EVOLUTION -- UNIT 1 -- UNITS 2 AND 3 -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES.

CHAPTER 7 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 INCURSIO -- INTRODUCTION -- PHYSICAL SETTING OF THE STUDY AREA -- ASSESSMENT OF THE DEPOSITIONAL EVIDENCE -- EVIDENCE CITED IN SUPPORT OF A TIDE-DOMINATED AND WAVE-DOMINATED DEPOSITIONAL MODEL -- EVIDENCE FAVOURING A DISTAL ALLUVIAL FAN MODEL -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8 TIDAL VERSUS CONTINENTAL SANDY-MUDDY FLAT DEPOSITS: EVIDENCE FROM THE ONCALA GROUP (EARLY CRETACEOUS, N SPAIN) -- INTRODUCTION -- GEOLOGICAL SETTING -- SANDY-MUDDY FLAT DEPOSITS OF THE ONCALA GROUP -- MEANDER LOOP BODIES -- NON-CHANNELLED HETEROLITHIC LAYERS -- TABULAR DOLOSTONE BEDS -- INTERPRETATION -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9 DO STROMATOLITES NEED TIDES TO TRAP OOIDS? INSIGHTS FROM A CRETACEOUS SYSTEM OF COASTAL-WETLANDS -- INTRODUCTION -- GEOLOGICAL SETTING -- METHODOLOGY -- SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE LEZA FORMATION -- CLASTIC FACIES ASSOCIATION -- BLACK LIMESTONES FACIES ASSOCIATION -- OOLITE-STROMATOLITE FACIES ASSOCIATION -- EVAPORITE-DOLOMITE FACIES ASSOCIATION -- WELL-BEDDED GREY LIMESTONES FACIES ASSOCIATION -- DESCRIPTION OF STROMATOLITES AND INTERPRETATION OF ACCRETION PROCESSES -- STROMATOLITES OF THE EASTERN SECTOR: AGGLUTINATED STROMATOLITES -- STROMATOLITES OF THE WESTERN SECTOR: SKELETAL STROMATOLITES -- DISCUSSION -- DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM OF THE LEZA FM -- INFLUENCE OF TIDES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEZA FM STROMATOLITES -- GRAIN AVAILABILITY -- CALCIFICATION OF MICROBIAL MATS.

IS TRAPPING OF OOIDS LIMITED TO TIDAL ENVIRONMENTS? -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10 ANGULAR AND TANGENTIAL TOESET GEOMETRY IN TIDAL CROSS-STRATA: AN ADDITIONAL FEATURE OF CURRENT-MODULATED DEPOSITS -- INTRODUCTION -- GEOLOGICAL SETTING -- LOWER PLEISTOCENE CATANZARO DEPOSITS -- ANGULAR-TANGENTIAL TOESET GEOMETRIES -- DESCRIPTION -- INTERPRETATION -- ANALOGUES -- DISCUSSION -- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TOESET GEOMETRIES AND OTHERS TIDAL SIGNATURES -- CURRENT MODULATION AND TOESET GEOMETRY -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11 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) -- INTRODUCTION -- GEOLOGICAL SETTING OF THE STUDIED AREAS -- THE EOCENE DUR AT TALAH FORMATION (SIRTE BASIN, LIBYA) -- HIERARCHY OF TIDAL RHYTHMITES IN THE DUR AT TALAH FORMATION -- DAILY CYCLICITY -- FORTNIGHTLY CYCLICITY -- MONTHLY CYCLICITY -- SEMI-ANNUAL CYCLICITY -- RATE OF SEDIMENTATION AND OF LATERAL MIGRATION OF TIDAL CHANNELS IN THE DUR AT TALAH FORMATION -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12 CATACLYSMIC BURIAL OF PENNSYLVANIAN PERIOD COAL SWAMPS IN THE ILLINOIS BASIN: HYPERTIDAL SEDIMENTATION DURING GONDWANAN GLACIAL MELT-WATER PULSES -- INTRODUCTION -- OBJECTIVES AND STUDY AREA -- 'CYCLOTHEM' MODELS -- COALS -- SILICICLASTIC UNITS -- SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY -- OBSERVATIONAL DATA SUPPORTING CATACLYSMIC BURIAL -- RECOGNITION OF TIDAL SEDIMENTATION WITHIN GSWS -- UPRIGHT PLANTS, TREES AND FORESTS.

PROCESSES THAT CAN RAPIDLY INCREASE ACCOMMODATION SPACE -- PEAT COMPACTION -- FAULTING -- DYNAMICS OF DEGLACIATION -- APPLYING NEOGENE MODELS TO PENNSYLVANIAN PERIOD SETTINGS -- ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS AND HEINRICH EVENTS -- PALAEOMEGAFLOODS -- MELT-WATER PULSES (MWP) -- COMPARISON OF LATE PENNSYLVANIAN AND LATE CENOZOIC ANALOGUES -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13 TIDAL RAVINEMENT SURFACES IN THE PLEISTOCENE MACROTIDAL TIDE-DOMINATED DONG NAI ESTUARY, SOUTHERN VIETNAM -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDY AREA AND LOCAL GEOLOGY -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- SEAWARD PART OF THE ESTUARY: NHON TRACH REGION -- LANDWARD PART OF THE ESTUARY: PHUOC TAN REGION -- DISCUSSION -- TRS CLASSIFICATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14 TIDALLY-MODULATED INFILLING OF A LARGE COASTAL PLAIN DURING THE HOLOCENE -- THE CASE OF THE FRENCH FLEMISH COASTAL PLAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SETTING -- METHODS -- FACIES ASSOCIATIONS -- SUBTIDAL SANDS FACIES ASSOCIATION -- MUD FLAT FACIES ASSOCIATION -- MARSH-SWAMP FACIES ASSOCIATION -- SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY -- STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK -- COASTAL EVOLUTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15 SEDIMENTOLOGY OF A TRANSGRESSIVE MIXED-ENERGY (WAVE/TIDE-DOMINATED) ESTUARY, UPPER DEVONIAN GEIRUD FORMATION (ALBORZ BASIN, NORTHERN IRAN) -- INTRODUCTION -- GEOLOGICAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC SETTING OF THE CENTRAL ALBORZ MOUNTAINS -- GENERAL STRATIGRAPHY OF THE GEIRUD FORMATION -- DATASET AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- GROUP 1 (FACIES ASSOCIATIONS A1 TO A3): RIVER-DOMINATED BAY-HEAD DELTA ZONE.

GROUP 2 (FACIES ASSOCIATIONS B1 TO B3): MIXED-ENERGY, CENTRAL BASIN ZONE.