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This special issue of Geo-Marine Letters presents selected contributions from the 9th International Conference on Tidal Sedimentology held on 17–19 November 2015 in Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina. The guest editors are the conference organizers Roberto A. Scasso and José I. Cuitiño. Gerardo M. Perillo was the head of the Scientific Committee. The conferences on tidal sedimentology have been traditionally held every 4 years. However, only 3 years separated the last conference held in Caen (France, 2012) from this conference. Increasing numbers of contributions and the growing interest in tidal sedimentation have been the reasons for shortening the inter-conference period. The 2015 conference served as a discussion forum focusing on advances in modern and ancient tidal sedimentation at different locations worldwide. The papers presented in this Special Issue provide a selective view of the latest research results, the main topics dealing with tidal hydrodynamics and sediment transport, tidal coastal morphodynamics, modern and ancient tidal sedimentation, geotechnical processes in tidal environments, and tidal basins, facies and reservoirs.
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We had the formidable help of Gabriela Massaferro, María Teresa Dozo and Pablo J. Bouza from the Centro Nacional Patagónico (CONICET), Puerto Madryn, in organizing the meeting held by the Centro Nacional Patagónico and the Asociación Argentina de Sedimentología. We acknowledge the Directors of the Centro Nacional Patagónico, Rolando González-José and Mirtha Lewis, for their enthusiastic support and for giving us all the facilities of the Center to carry out the conference. Cecilia del Papa and Karina Lecomte from the Asociación Argentina de Sedimentología greatly helped with fund raising and management. We are also indebted to the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, and the Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva that, together with ALUAR, an industrial plant producing aluminum in Puerto Madryn, gave financial support for this meeting. The International Association of Sedimentology (IAS) provided travel grants for assistants. This meeting was inscribed in the government “Pampa Azul” initiative, directed to the study of the Argentine Sea and its coasts. We are grateful to Sergio Matheos, Subsecretario de Coordinación Institucional of the Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva de la Nación, for his help. Special thanks go to the Steering Committee of Tidalites that trusted us for organizing the Conference when our proposal was just one among others from very qualified colleagues. Also acknowledged are the numerous peer-reviewers and the journal editors for their assistance in maintaining a high scientific standard for the Special Issue. Last but not least, the authors are thanked for their part in the successful completion of this publication project.
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Scasso, R.A., Cuitiño, J.I. Selected contributions from the 9th International Conference on Tidal Sedimentology, November 2015, Puerto Madryn, Patagonia, Argentina: an introduction. Geo-Mar Lett 37, 319–324 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-017-0504-8
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