Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology

Bernadette Tessier is currently Senior Researcher at the CNRS in Caen, and has worked on tidal environments and deposits for 30 years. Her main interest is the Holocene evolution and sediment infill of tide-dominated estuaries in north-west France. Her most recent work focuses on the control by climate changes on the behaviour of megatidal systems.Jean-Yves Reynaud has been working on tidal deposits since 1992. He has authored papers on the offshore tidal ridges of the southern Celtic Sea, and on the tide-dominated bioclastic deposits infilling Miocene incised valleys and straits of south-east France and Corsica. He is currently Professor at the University of Lille.

• List of Contributors viiContributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology: an introduction to the volume 1Bernadette Tessier and Jean-Yves ReynaudHydrodynamic 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 ChengTemporal 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 TaDoes the Ichnogis method work? A test of prediction performance in a microtidal environment: The Mula di Muggia (Northern Adriatic, Italy) 35Andrea Baucon and Fabrizio FellettiSuspended sediment dynamics induced by the passage of a tidal bore in an upper estuary 61Lucille Furgerot, Pierre Weill, Dominique Mouazé and Bernadette TessierMorphodynamics 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 ZhangTidal‐bore deposits in incised valleys, Albian, SW Iberian Ranges, Spain 93Manuela Chamizo‐Borreguero, Nieves Meléndez and Poppe L. de BoerThe 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. FlemmingTidal 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 MasDo 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 MasAngular and tangential toeset geometry in tidal cross‐strata: An additional feature of current‐modulated deposits 191Domenico ChiarellaHierarchy 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 RubinoCataclysmic 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. DiMicheleTidal ravinement surfaces in the Pleistocene macrotidal tide‐dominated Dong Nai estuary, southern Vietnam 233Toshiyuki Kitazawa and Naomi MurakoshiTidally‐modulated infilling of a large coastal plain during the Holocene; the case of the French Flemish Coastal plain 243José Margotta, Alain Trentesaux and Nicolas TribovillardSedimentology 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 MosaddeghSedimentary 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 LiFacies, architecture and stratigraphic occurrence of headland‐attached tidal sand ridges in the Roda Formation, Northern Spain 313Kain J. Michaud and Robert W. DalrympleIndex 343