
Tsunamiites
Features and Implications
- 2nd Edition - November 27, 2020
- Editors: Tsunemasa Shiki, Yoshinobu Tsuji, Teiji Yamazaki, Futoshi Nanayama
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 9 3 9 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 9 4 0 - 7
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,… Read more

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Request a sales quoteTsunamiites: 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
Tsunamiite-studies in general, Sedimentology, Geology (sedimentary geology, marine geology, applied geology, and others), coastal geomorphology, Seismology
- 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
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Generation, propagation, and quantification
- 3. Tsunami sedimentology
- 4. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 4. Bedforms and sedimentary structures characterizing tsunami deposits
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Differences of waveforms between tsunami- and storm-induced waves
- 3. Bedforms and sedimentary structures reflecting the tsunami waveform
- 4. Single-bed deposits
- 5. Multiple-bed deposits
- 6. Depositional model in shallow water
- 7. Conclusions
- Chapter 5. Tsunami depositional processes reflecting the waveform in a small bay: interpretation from the grain-size distribution and sedimentary structures
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Regional setting
- 3. Sedimentary facies of the tsunami deposits
- 4. Grain-size distribution of the tsunami deposits
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusions
- Chapter 6. Deposits of the 1992 Nicaragua tsunami
- 1. Introduction
- 2. 1992 tsunami deposits along the Nicaragua coast
- 3. Tsunami deposits near Playa de Popoyo
- 4. Grading of the tsunami deposits
- 5. Discussion
- Appendix A
- 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
- 1. Introduction
- 2. General setting
- 3. Methods
- 4. Results
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusions
- Chapter 8. Distribution and significance of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami deposits: initial results from Thailand and Sri Lanka
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Localities and methods of study
- 3. Distribution and significance of the tsunami deposits
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Thickness and grain-size distribution of Indian Ocean tsunami deposits at Khao Lak and Phra Thong Island, South-Western Thailand
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Study areas
- 3. Impact of the tsunami
- 4. Thickness and grain-size distribution
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusions
- Chapter 10. Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami: implications for Paleotsunami research
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami and its precursors
- 3. Lessons learned from the Tohoku-oki tsunami
- 4. Conclusions
- Chapter 11. An overview on offshore tsunami deposits
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Offshore tsunami deposits – current knowledge
- 3. Offshore tsunami deposits – their features
- 4. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 12. Combined investigation of tradition archives and sedimentary relics of tsunami hazards – with reference to the Great 1700 Cascadia tsunami and other examples
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The tsunami traces of the 1700 Cascadia earthquake and corresponding archives in Japan
- 3. Examples from the Japanese islands
- 4. Lack of sedimentary relic – A supplementary discussion
- 5. Conclusive remarks
- Chapter 13. Deep-sea homogenites: sedimentary expression of a prehistoric megatsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Deep-sea homogenites
- 3. Discussion
- 4. Conclusions
- 5. Post scriptum
- Chapter 14. Tsunami-related sedimentary properties of mediterranean homogenites as an example of deep-sea tsunamiite
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Setting, types, and distribution of homogenites
- 3. Sedimentary properties
- 4. Discussion of sedimentological problems
- 5. Comparison with other deep-sea tsunamiites
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Appendix: reflections on terminology
- Chapter 15. Volcanism-induced tsunamis and tsunamiites
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Volcanism-induced tsunamis
- 3. Volcanism-induced tsunamiites
- 4. Discussion and summary
- Chapter 16. Tsunamiites—conceptual descriptions and a possible example at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in the Pernambuco Basin, Northeastern Brazil
- 1. Prologue
- 2. Introduction and previous studies
- 3. A theoretical approach toward the identification of tsunamiites
- 4. Methods and data analyses
- 5. Geological setting of the study area
- 6. Characteristics of the Poty quarry K/Pg boundary
- 7. The controversy about the position of the K/Pg boundary
- 8. Bed D, the possible tsunamiite and a tentative model
- 9. Updated information on the area (K/Pg boundary at Poty quarry)
- 10. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 17. Deep-sea tsunami deposits in the proto-Caribbean sea at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Paleogeography of the proto-Caribbean sea and geological setting of the study sites
- 3. Sedimentary processes of the Peñalver Formation
- 4. Comparison of K/T-boundary deep-sea tsunami deposits in the proto-Caribbean sea
- 5. Implications for the genesis and number of tsunami currents at the K/T boundary
- 6. Conclusions
- Chapter 18. The genesis of oceanic impact craters and impact-generated tsunami deposits
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Morphology of oceanic impact craters
- 3. The generation of tsunamis by oceanic impacts
- 4. Impact-generated tsunami deposits inside and outside the oceanic impact craters
- 5. Distribution and significance of the K/T-boundary tsunami deposits around the Chicxulub crater
- 6. Significance and distribution of the K/T-boundary tsunami deposits
- 7. Summary
- Chapter 19. Tsunami boulder deposits – a strongly debated topic in paleo-tsunami research
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Examples of tsunami boulder deposition
- 3. Conclusion
- Chapter 20. Characteristic features of tsunamiites
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Characteristics of tsunamis and tsunami deposition
- 3. Sedimentary structures in tsunamiite beds
- 4. Constituents of tsunamiites
- 5. Tsunamiite features in various environments
- 6. Conclusive remarks
- Chapter 21. Sedimentology of tsunamiites reflecting chaotic events in the geological record – significance and problems
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tsunamiites as records of ancient events
- 3. Patterns of tsunamiite occurrence in time
- 4. Preservation potential of tsunamiites
- 5. Conclusive remarks and future studies
- Selected bibliography
- Index
- No. of pages: 482
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: November 27, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128239391
- eBook ISBN: 9780128239407
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Tsunemasa Shiki
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Yoshinobu Tsuji
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Teiji Yamazaki
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