Sedimentary Geology, 26 (1980) 337 337 © Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam -- Printed in The Netherlands

Contents

Sedimentary Geology, Volume 26, 1980

Special Issue Shallow Marine Processes and Products Edited by A.H. Bouma, D.S. Gorsline, C. Monty and G.P. Allen

Foreword A.H. Bouma, D.S. Gorsline, C. Monty and G.P. Allen .................. VII

Holocene sequences on an embayed high-energy coast: an evolutionary model P.S. Roy (Sydney, N.S.W., Australia), B.G. Thorn (Duntroon, A.C.T., Australia) and L.D. Wright (Sydney, N.S.W., Australia) ........................ 1

Contemporary accumulation of marine sand in a macrotidal estuary, southwest Wales C.F. Jago (London, U.K.) ..................................... 21

Effects of seasonal changes on the sedimentary regime of a subarctic estuary, Rupert Bay (Canada) B. d'Anglejan (Montreal, Que., Canada) ........................... 51

Effects of tides on mixing and suspended sediment transport in macrotidal estuaries G.P. Allen, J.C. Salomon, P. Bassoullet, Y. du Penhoat and C. de Grandpr~ (Brest, France) ............................................ 69

Actual development of the chenier coast of Suriname (South America) P.G.E.F. Augustinus (Utrecht, The Netherlands) ...................... 91

Bottom currents and shelf sediments, southwest of Britain D. Hamilton, J.H. Sommerville and P.N. Stanford (Bristol, U.K.) ........... 115

General morphology and sediment patterns in tidal inlets M.O. Haye (Columbia, S.C., U.S.A.) .............................. 139

Identification of bedforms in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska A.H. Bouma, M.L. Rappeport, R.C. Orlando and M.A. Hampton (Menlo Park, Calif., U.S.A.) ............................................ 157

Sand transport and bedform patterns on the continental shelf between Durban and Port Elizabeth (southeast African continental margin) B.W. Flemming (Rondebosch, South Africa) ........................ 179

Single and superimposed bedforms: a synthesis of San Francisco Bay and flume ob- servations D.M. Rubin and D.S. McCulloch (Menlo Park, Calif., U.S.A.) ............. 207

Field observations and flume experiments on the natue of comet marks F. Werner, G. UnsSld, B. Koopmann (Kiel, F.R.G.) and A. Stefanon (Venice, Italy) .................................................. 233

Dynamics and sequential analysis of a mesotidal shoal and intershoal channel com- plex in the eastern Scheldt (southwestern Netherlands) Nio, S.D., Van den Berg, J.H., Goesten, M. and Smulders, F. (Utrecht, The Netherlands) ............................................. 263

Research Papers Sand waves: a model of origin and internal structure

J.R.L. Allen (Reading, Great Britain) ............................. 281 A general aspect in the genesis of nodular limestones documented by the Upper

Cretaceous limestones of Jordan A.M. Abed (Amman, Jordan) and W. Schneider (Braunschweig, F.R.G.) ...... 329