[Aqualist] Special issue of Continental Shelf Research

[Barrows, Timothy]

Hello Fellow Coastal Geological Scientists,

My colleagues and I are planning to propose a special issue to Continental Shelf Research on the creation of sedimentary strata by events (e.g., floods, storms, tsunami).  We hope to include a series of provocative papers that cover a broad range of events and environments (shorezone to shelf edge) from sedimentary research around the globe.  We are writing to see if you are interested in submitting a paper for this special issue.  More details on the focus of the issue and our proposed time are defined below.

If you are interested in contributing a paper, please send a tentative title, coauthor list and a page estimate to J.P. Walsh, walshj at ecu.edu<mailto:walshj at ecu.edu>.

Please don't hesitate to contact any one of the guest editors with questions.  Also, please forward this email to anyone else you think might be interested.

Best,
J.P. Walsh




Event Sediment Transport and Sedimentation: Insights from Measurements and Modeling
A Special Issue to be proposed to Continental Shelf Research

Guest Editors: J.P. Walsh1, Reide Corbett1, Courtney Harris2, Andrea Ogston3 and Alan Orpin4
1Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
2Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA
3School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
4National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand

>From shore zone to shelf edge, coastal areas are influenced by both terrestrial and marine processes, and the resultant geologic record may reflect many thousands to millions of years of sedimentation.  But when viewed over shorter timescales, the sedimentary record is constructed by individual depositional events occurring over hours to days.  Some of these stratigraphic layers are small and subsequently modified or destroyed by biological and/or physical processes, yet others are preserved in the marine sedimentary archive, providing a lasting record of their occurrence.  The past decade has been an exciting time in Earth's recent history with an impressive number of significant events impacting coastal areas, from major storms and massive floods to powerful tsunamis.  Modern instrumentation and field and laboratory techniques now allow an unprecedented opportunity to observe and quantify the character of sedimentary deposits and the processes that contribute to their formation or destruction, and refined modeling methods and computing capabilities enable realistic simulations of real-world events and processes.  This special issue will feature a collection of papers that examines sediment transport and related deposits associated with the formation and preservation of discrete events.  The dynamics of the seabed and its impact on the sediment record is relevant not only to geologists but also biologists, chemists and physical oceanographers interested in ecosystem impacts, geochemical cycling, transport processes and oceanographic changes.  As a result, we are confident that this special issue will appeal to a large portion of Continental Shelf Research's readership.


Proposed Timeline
Preferred date by which to express interest:           Friday, January 20, 2012
Date for proposal submission to CSR:                       Monday, January 23, 2012
Target Date from manuscript submissions:             Sunday, April 1, 2012
Deadline for manuscript submission:                        Friday, June 1, 2012
Final revised manuscripts to CSR:                              Saturday, December 15, 2012


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J.P. Walsh, Associate Professor, Coastal Sedimentary Processes Research<http://www.coastalgeology.ecu.edu/>
Department of Geological Sciences and the Institute for Coastal Science and Policy
301B Graham Bldg, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858; 252.328.5431
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