Dear Joao,

are you seraching in areas onshore or offshore? Which size is "micro"-morphological?

Best regards

Klaus

I am doing onshore research. Specifically on salt marsh sediments. When I refer Micromorphology i mean microscopic analysis of sediments describing its structures and compositions using petrographic microscopes and thin sections of undisturbed soil. In this case, undisturbed salt marsh deposits.

Thank you for your interest.

Best regards.

JAG

Hi João,

these papers may contain some hints:

Badhreenath et al 2011, Saluvankuppam coastal temple - excavation and application of soil micromorphology, Current Science, 100: 1071-1075.

Bruins et al 2008, Geoarchaeological tsunami deposits at Palaikastro (Crete) and the Late Minoan IA eruption of Santorini, JAS, 35: 191-212.

Vött et al 2009, The lake voulkaria (Akarnania, NW Greece) palaeoenvironmental archive - A sediment trap for multiple tsunami impact since the mid-holocene, Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, 53, suppl. 1: 1-37.

Best,

Diego

Thanks Diego. 

Great references!

JAG

Dear Joao,

please have a look to the publications by Witold Suczinski who did a lot of work on tsunami deposits onshore.

best regards

Klaus

Thank you very much. I will.

Much obliged

JAG

Dear Joao,

you have probably seen this already: P J M Costa, C Andrade & M C Freitas, 2014. Assinaturas microtexturais de processos, ambientes e fontes sedimentares. O depósito de tsunami de 1744 na Boda do Rio – um caso de estudo. In: P Dinis, A Gomes & S Montéiro-Rodrigues (coord.), Proveniência de materiais geológicos. Abordagens sobre o Quaternário de Portugal, APEQ, 2014: 37-56.

Regards,

Diego

No Diego, I haven't got that one. Thank you very much

Dear Joao,

in your investigations using thin sections please as well think abou using x-ray images. These sections often help to get good insights into internal sedimentological structures. It should work well with this kind of cohesive, consolidated sediment.

Best regards

Klaus

Dear Joao,

please consult excellent recent work by Falward and Paris (2016) in Sedimentology:

X-ray tomography of tsunami deposits: Towards a new depositional model of tsunami deposits.

with regards

Witek

Macro- and micromorphological aspects of tsunami deposits in Crete were published in the following publication:

Bruins, H.J., MacGillivray, J.A., Synolakis, C.E., Benjamini, C., Keller, J., Kisch, H.J., Klügel, A. and Van der Plicht, J. (2008) Geoarchaeological tsunami deposits at Palaikastro (Crete) and the Late Minoan IA eruption of Santorini. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(1): 191-212.