| Cover Story | 
| Hot spring travertines in the Rapolano Terme area, Toscany, central Italy | 
| -- Hiroki Matsuda --     108 | 
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| Articles | 
| Tsunami-induced gravity currents generated in an experimental flume | 
| -- Satoru Niitani, Fujio Masuda and Hajime Naruse   --  109- 113 | 
| Tenma spit deposit in the Holocene of the Osaka Plain: Distribution and stratigraphy | 
| -- Fujio Masuda, Younosuke Nakagawa, Takahiko Sakamoto, Yuka Ito, Minao Sakurai and Muneki Mitamura   --  115- 123 | 
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| Research Report | 
| Ripples under partially standing waves for different reflection coefficients: a laboratory experiment | 
| -- Naofumi Yamaguchi and Tomohiro Sekiguchi   --   125- 134 | 
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| Notes | 
| Relationship among the deformation of river bed, river level, discharge, and groundwater level | 
| -- Kazuhisa Suzuki   --   135- 140 | 
| Intra-arc tectonics in the Early to Middle Miocene in Northeast Japan | 
| -- Jun Hosoi, Makoto Okada, Tomohiro Gokan and Kazuo Amano   --   141- 146 | 
| Geometry and internal organization of hyperpycnites formed in front of a shelf-margin delta system, a Middle Pleistocene Chonan Formation on the Boso Peninsula, central Japan | 
| -- Masaya Fuse, Keisuke Nakamura and Makoto Ito   --   147- 151 | 
| Evaluation of the effect of turbidity currents in the formation of hemipelagic siltstones: An example from the lower Pleistocene Kazusa Group on the Boso Peninsula, Japan | 
| -- Shiho Kurosawa, Mayu Mitsui and Makoto Ito   --   153- 157 | 
| Basin evolution reconstructed from reflected turbidite: an example from the Plio-Pleistocene Kakegawa Group, Western Shizuoka, Japan | 
| -- Kenta Kitahori and Tetsuya Sakai   --   159- 164 | 
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| Conference Report | 
| A report on the Western Pacific Sedimentology Meeting | 
| -- Megumi Seki   --   165- 172 |