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Clastic Tidal Sedimentology — Memoir 16, 1991
Pages ix-xv

A Short Historical Review of Clastic Tidal Sedimentology

Gerard V. Middleton

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The best studied modern tidal environments are tidal flats, tidal inlets and deltas, and subtidal shelf sand banks (including tidal sand ridges and fields of large-scale dunes). At present, much sediment is being deposited in large, tide-dominated river deltas, which remain little investigated and understood. The best criteria for recognition of ancient tidal sediments are: 1) tidal bundles and evidence for other neap-spring rhythms; 2) flaser, wavy and lenticular bedding, particularly where present in 3) fining-upward cycles with supporting evidence for deposition on prograding tidal flats; and 4) crossbedding with evidence for current reversals, such as opposed cross-strata, regularly spaced reactivation surfaces, and mud drapes.

A distinction should be made between morphological elements, such as tidal flats, clearly formed by tidal action, and environmental systems, such as estuaries, composed of a large number of morphological elements, only some of which are tidal.


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