Contributions to modern and ancient tidal sedimentology : proceedings of the Tidalites 2012 conference / [edited by] Bernadette Tessier and Jean-Yves Reynaud.

"International Association of Sedimentologists."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hydrodynamic modelling of salinity variations in a semi-engineered mangrove wetland: the microtidal Frog Creek System, Florida / Jicai 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 / Akiko 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) / A. Baucon and F. Felletti --
Suspended sediment dynamics induced by the passage of a tidal bore in an upper estuary / Lucille Fugerot, Pierre Weill, Dominique Mouazé and Bernadette Tessier --
Morphodynamics and sedimentary facies in a tidal-fluvial transition with tidal bores (the middle Qiantang Estuary, China) / Daidu Fan, Junbiao Tu, Shuai Shang, Lingling Chen and Yue Zhang --
Tidal-bore deposits in incised valleys, Albian, SW Iberian Ranges, Spain / Manuela 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 / Burghard W. Flemming --
Tidal versus continental sandy-muddy flat deposits: evidence from the Oncala Group (Early Cretaceous, N Spain) / I. 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 / Pablo 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 / Domenico 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) / Jonathan 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 / Allen 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 / Toshiyuki Kitazawa and Naomi Murakoshi --
Tidally-modulated infilling of a large coastal plain during the Holocene; the case of the French Flemish Coastal plain / José Margotta, Alain Trentesaux and Nicolas Tribovillard --
Sedimentology of a transgressive mixed-energy (wave/tide-dominated) estuary, Upper Devonian Geirud Formation (Alborz Basin, northern Iran) / Mahmoud Sharafi, Sergio G. Longhitano, Asadollah Mahboubi, Reza Moussavi-Harami and Hosien Mosaddegh --
Sedimentary facies and Late Pleistocene-Holocene evolution of the northern Jiangsu coast and radial tidal ridge field, South Yellow Sea, China / Yong Yin, Peihong Jia and Qing Li --
Facies, architecture and stratigraphic occurrence of headland-attached tidal sand ridges in the Roda Formation, Northern Spain / Kain J. Michaud and Robert W. Dalrymple.

Tidal deposits have been a specific research topic for about 40 years, and whilst this has resulted in a proliferation of papers in scientific journals, there have only been a few book-length syntheses. Over the years, tidal sedimentology has been reinforced by fluid mechanics and numerical modelling but has remained rooted in facies and stratigraphic studies. Recent developments in tidal sedimentology lean toward a more quantitative assessment of the imprint of tides in the facies record of intertidal and shallow subtidal areas. They highlight the increasing relevance of tidal deposits studies, from high resolution subsurface reservoir geology to climate change and sea-level rise. This volume gathers 17 contributions to the Tidalites 2012 congress held in Caen, France. It reflects current advances in the sedimentology and stratigraphy of tidal deposits, in both ancient and modern environments. It shows the current diversity of this field of research, through a wide spectrum of methods including remote sensing, in-situ hydrodynamical measurements, and ichnology, in addition to classic field studies and petrography.