Richard A. Davis, Jr., is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, with 40 years of teaching experience, last 32 years at University of South Florida, USA. He has been visiting professor at many universities. He authored and edited 14 books (2 of them for Springer) and numerous publications. He is a member of Geological Society of America, the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), and American Shore and Beach Preservation Association. His major specialization is coastal geology, especially barrier islands systems, inlets, tidal environments and beaches.

• Preface.- 1.Tidal Constituents of Modern and Ancient Tidal Rhythmites: Criteria for Recognition and Analysis.- 2. Principles of Sediment Transport Applicable in Tidal Environments.- 3. Tidal Signatures and Their Preservation Potential in Stratigraphic Sequences.- 4. Tidal Ichnology.- 5. Processes, Morphodynamics and Faces of Tide-Dominated Estuaries.- 6.Stratigraphy of Tide-Dominated Estuaries.- 7. Tide-Dominated Deltas.- 8. Salt Marsh Sedimentation.- 9. Open Coast Tidal Flats.- 10. Siliclastic Back-Barrier Tidal Flats.- 11. Tidal Channels on Tidal Flats and Marshes.- 12. Morphology and Facies Architecture of Tidal Inlets and Tidal Deltas.- 13. Shallow-Marine Tidal Deposits.- 14. Deep-Water Tidal Sedimentology.- 15. Precambrian Tidal Facies.- 16. Hypertidal Facies from the Pennsylvanian Period: East and West Interior Coal Basins, USA.- 17. Tidal Deposits of the Campanian Western Interior Seaway (WIS), Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, USA.- 18. Contrasting Styles of Siliciclastic Tidal Deposits in Developing Thrust Sheet-Top-Basins - the Lower Eocene of the Central Pyrenees (Spain).- 19. Holocene Tidal Flats.- 20. Tidal Sands of the Bahamas Archipelago.- 21. Ancient Carbonate Tidalites- Index.

From the reviews: "This substantial collection of papers owes its origins to the series of International Conferences on Tidal Sedimentology that were initiated back in 1973 ... . There is certainly a consistency in approach and also presentation that is lacking in so many edited volumes. The book is exceptionally well illustrated ... . Principles of Tidal Sedimentology provides a very welcome synthesis of recent advances in this field and is definitely a volume that anyone seriously interested in tidal sedimentology will want to have." (Jon French, Geological Magazine, April, 2012) "The book under review contains outstanding chapters on tidal rhythmites, ichnofacies, facies architecture of tidal inlets, the sedimentology of muddy alongshore tidal flats of open coasts, processes, a state-of-the-art review of bedforms and sedimentary products of some examples of shallow-marine tide-dominated environments. The book may therefore be useful for those who are interested in one or more of these aspects ... ." (J. H. (Janrik) van den Berg, The Sedimentary Record, June, 2012)