Tsunamiites - Features and Implications

Tsunemasa Shiki is Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University in Japan. Studies of subjects in sedimentology, marine Geology, disaster prevention. Yoshinobu Tsuji, Head of Institute of Studies of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Prevention. Formerly, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Studies of Tsunami sediments with special attention to their historical documents. T. Yamazaki, Emeritus Professor of Osaka Kyoiku University, Sedimentology, Volcano-stratigraphy, Lithology, Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan

• Introduction - why a book on tsunamiites; The term "tsunamiite"; Tsunamis and tsunami sedimentology; Sedimentary characteristics and depositional processes of onshore tsunami deposits; Deposits of the 1992 Nicaragua Tsunami; Distribution and significances of the Indian Ocean tsunami deposits; Thickness and grain-size distribution of Indian Ocean tsunami deposits distributed in the Khao Lak and Phra Thong Island, south-eastern Thailand; Tsunami depositional processes reflecting the waveform in a small bay; Offshore tractive current deposition: the forgotten tsunami sedimentation process; Volcanism-induced tsunamis and tsunamiites; Deep-sea homogenites; Tsunami-affected sedimentary properties of the Mediterranean homogenites as an Modern example of deep-sea tsunamiite; A possible tsunamiite at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in Pernambco basin, northeastern Brazil; Deep-sea tsunami deposits in the Proto-Caribbean sea at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary; The generation of oceanic impact craters and impact-generated tsunami deposits; Tsunami boulder deposits; Characteristic features of tsunamiites; Sedimentology of tsunamiites reflecting chaotic events in the geological records.