Table of Contents

Introduction
Worldwide Distribution of Intertidal Areas
Tides
Zonation
Vegetation
Benthic Fauna
Sediment
Macrotidal Deposits
The Wash (North Sea)
Baie du Mont - St. Michel
Bassin d'Arcachon
Macrotidal River Estuaries, Rias, and Bays in Northwest Europe
Mozambique
Madagascar West Coast
Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay) and the Gulf of Kachchh (Kutch)
Ganges - Brahmaputra (Meghna) River Mouths
Irrawaddy River Delta
West Coast Korea
China: Jiangsu Coast
China: Chang Jiang River Mouth and Hangzhou Bay
China Southeast Coast: Intertidal Deposits in Embayments
Taiwan West Coast
Red River Mouths
King Sound, Cambridge Gulf (Northwest Australia)
North Australia
Broad Sound (Queensland)
Cook Inlet, Glacier Bay (Alaska)
Queen Charlotte Islands
Colorado River Delta Area
Bay of Fundy
St. Lawrence Estuary
Hudson Strait - Ungava Bay - Baffin Island
San Antonio Bay (Argentina)
San Sebastian Bay (Tierra del Fuego)
Columbia - Ecuador
Macrotidal Deposits
Mesotidal Deposits
The Wadden Sea
Mesotidal River Estuaries and Rias in Western Europe
Guinea-Bissau - Guinea
Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea
Tanzania and Kenya
Northwest Persian Gulf
Indus River Delta and Rann of Kutch
Northern Gulf of Thailand
West Coast of Burma (Myanmar), Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia (Andaman Sea Coast)
Mekong River Mouth
The Philippines
Indonesia
Gulf of Papua
Gulf of Carpentaria and Northern Queensland
Firth of Thames, New Zealand
Bristol Bay, Alaska
Fraser River Delta
Yaquina Bay, San Francisco Bay
The U.S. East Coast: Georgia, South Carolina, Maine
Southern Hudson Bay, Labrador
The South America North Coast: Amazon River Mouth - Guyanas - Orinoco Delta
South America East Coast
Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Mesotidal Deposits
Microtidal Deposits
Dyfi Estuary, Wales
The White Sea, Northern Siberia, The Gulf of Anadyr, and the Sea of Okhotsk
Northwest Africa
Senegal and Gambia
Sierra Leone - Benin
Niger Delta
Zaire River Estuary
Langebaan Lagoon
Kwazulu - Natal
Persian Gulf: Qatar to Oman
Kerala Lagoons, Estuaries, and Mudbanks
Deltas, East Coast India
Sri Lanka
Gulf of Thailand
Bohai Sea - Huanghe He (Yellow River) Delta
West Australia
South and East Australia: South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales
New Zealand
Pacific Islands
Alaska
Mar Ciquita
Venezuela - Colombia
Louisiana Coast - Mississippi Delta
Northwest Florida
Southwest Florida - Belize
Andros, Caicos and Grand Cayman Island (Bahamas - British West Indies)
East Coast United States: South Carolina to Massachusetts
Iceland
Microtidal Deposits
Windflat Deposits
Baltic
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
East Siberia
Laguna Madre, Mexico/Texas
Morphology of Intertidal Areas
The Intertidal Surface
Channels, Creeks, and Gullies
Single Channels; Straight Single Channels
Sinuous Single Channels
Meandering Channels
Channel Width
Levees
Channel Systems: Systems of Parallel Channels or No Channels at All
Dendritic Channel Systems
Braided and Distributary Channels
Interconnecting Channels
Erosional Steps and Marsh Ponds
Barrier Beaches and Cheniers
Qualitative Comparison of Macro-, Meso-, and Microtidal Areas
Intertidal Sediments: Composition and Structure
Siliciclastic Systems
Carbonate Systems
Cold Regions: Influence of Ice
Sediments
Sedimentary Structures
Deformation Structures
Facies
Sedimentary Sequences
Preservation
Evolutionary Trends and Variations of Controlling Mechanisms through Geological History
Sediment Transport in Intertidal Areas
Introduction
Flow in Tidal Areas
Tides
Tidal Asymmetries
Density-Driven Circulations
Meteorological Forcing
The Small-Scale Current Field
Flow over Tidal Flats
Wind Waves
Tidal Flow and Sediment Transport
Tidal Areas with No or Weak Density Gradients
Tidal Areas with Marked Density Gradients: Estuaries
Intertidal Fauna and Vegetation
Influence of Benthic Fauna and Microflora
Influence of Salt Marsh Vegetation on Sedimentation
Mangrove
Algal Mats
Seagrasses
Holocene Development of Intertidal Deposits
Influence of Man
Index of Geographical Names
Latin Fauna Names
Latin Flora Names