Intertidal Deposits

<p>Intertidal Deposits: River Mouths, Tidal Flats, and Coastal Lagoons combines the authors personal and professional experience with the mass of available literature to present a cohesive overview of intertidal deposits and the widely diverse conditions of their formation worldwide. This includes the strong influence of water movements, climate, sediment particle characteristics, vegetation, fauna, and man. <br>Intertidal areas are important for many reasons both scientifically and economically and recently, a growing concern for conservation of these fragile regions strives to preserve and protect their natural balance. This book, written by an international expert in the field, concentrates on the more important intertidal areas distinguished by size and morphology, tidal range, the degree and type of vegetational cover, the amount and type of benthic fauna, the extent of human exploitation, and the degree of previous study.</p> <p>Introduction<br>Worldwide Distribution of Intertidal Areas<br>Tides<br>Zonation<br>Vegetation<br>Benthic Fauna<br>Sediment<br>Macrotidal Deposits<br>The Wash (North Sea)<br>Baie du Mont - St. Michel<br>Bassin d'Arcachon<br>Macrotidal River Estuaries, Rias, and Bays in Northwest Europe<br>Mozambique<br>Madagascar West Coast<br>Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay) and the Gulf of Kachchh (Kutch)<br>Ganges - Brahmaputra (Meghna) River Mouths<br>Irrawaddy River Delta<br>West Coast Korea<br>China: Jiangsu Coast<br>China: Chang Jiang River Mouth and Hangzhou Bay<br>China Southeast Coast: Intertidal Deposits in Embayments<br>Taiwan West Coast<br>Red River Mouths<br>King Sound, Cambridge Gulf (Northwest Australia)<br>North Australia<br>Broad Sound (Queensland)<br>Cook Inlet, Glacier Bay (Alaska)<br>Queen Charlotte Islands<br>Colorado River Delta Area<br>Bay of Fundy<br>St. Lawrence Estuary<br>Hudson Strait - Ungava Bay - Baffin Island<br>San Antonio Bay (Argentina)<br>San Sebastian Bay (Tierra del Fuego)<br>Columbia - Ecuador<br>Macrotidal Deposits<br>Mesotidal Deposits<br>The Wadden Sea<br>Mesotidal River Estuaries and Rias in Western Europe<br>Guinea-Bissau - Guinea<br>Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea<br>Tanzania and Kenya<br>Northwest Persian Gulf<br>Indus River Delta and Rann of Kutch<br>Northern Gulf of Thailand<br>West Coast of Burma (Myanmar), Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia (Andaman Sea Coast)<br>Mekong River Mouth<br>The Philippines<br>Indonesia<br>Gulf of Papua<br>Gulf of Carpentaria and Northern Queensland<br>Firth of Thames, New Zealand<br>Bristol Bay, Alaska<br>Fraser River Delta<br>Yaquina Bay, San Francisco Bay<br>The U.S. East Coast: Georgia, South Carolina, Maine<br>Southern Hudson Bay, Labrador<br>The South America North Coast: Amazon River Mouth - Guyanas - Orinoco Delta<br>South America East Coast<br>Bahia Blanca, Argentina<br>Mesotidal Deposits<br>Microtidal Deposits<br>Dyfi Estuary, Wales<br>The White Sea, Northern Siberia, The Gulf of Anadyr, and the Sea of Okhot</p>