Estimating palaeo-water depth from the physical rock record

A Immenhauser - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Palaeo-water depth and its change with time is a key factor in environmental analysis and in
sedimentology in general. The literature published on this topic and on related subjects …

The use of boulders for characterising past tsunamis: lessons from the 2004 Indian Ocean and 2009 South Pacific tsunamis

S Etienne, M Buckley, R Paris, AK Nandasena… - Earth-Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Tsunamis are high energy events capable of transporting extremely heavy loads including
boulders. We compare boulder deposits created by two modern tsunami events, the 2004 …

Boulder and fine sediment transport and deposition by the 2004 tsunami in Lhok Nga (western Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia): a coupled offshore–onshore model

R Paris, J Fournier, E Poizot, S Etienne, J Morin… - Marine Geology, 2010 - Elsevier
Estimating the magnitude of a past tsunami from its deposits is one of the major topics to be
developed in future studies on tsunami hazard assessment. Main limitations are (1) the great …

The post-depositional changes of the onshore 2004 tsunami deposits on the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand

W Szczuciński - Natural Hazards, 2012 - Springer
Abstract The Indian Ocean tsunami flooded the coastal zone of the Andaman Sea and left
tsunami deposits with a thickness of a few millimetres to tens of centimetres over a roughly …

Process-sedimentological challenges in distinguishing paleo-tsunami deposits

G Shanmugam - Natural Hazards, 2012 - Springer
There has been a lively debate since the 1980s on distinguishing between paleo-tsunami
deposits and paleo-cyclone deposits using sedimentological criteria. Tsunami waves not …

Flow speed estimated by inverse modeling of sandy tsunami deposits: results from the 11 March 2011 tsunami on the coastal plain near the Sendai Airport, Honshu …

BE Jaffe, K Goto, D Sugawara, BM Richmond… - Sedimentary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Tsunami deposits contain information about the flow that created them which can be
interpreted to estimate tsunami magnitude. Sandy deposits near Sendai Airport are modeled …

Tsunami deposits of the Caribbean–Towards an improved coastal hazard assessment

M Engel, J Oetjen, SM May, H Brückner - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Coasts worldwide experience considerable population pressure and the demand for reliable
hazard management, such as of tsunamis, increases. Tsunami hazard assessment requires …

[PDF][PDF] Identification of tsunami deposits in the geologic record; develo** criteria using recent tsunami deposits

R Peters, B Jaffe - 2010 - pubs.usgs.gov
There is a need for a clear procedure to identify tsunami deposits in the geologic record.
Data from published studies documenting recent tsunami deposits provide a means of …

Tsunamis versus storm deposits from Thailand

S Phantuwongraj, M Choowong - Natural Hazards, 2012 - Springer
Along the Andaman (west) coast of Thailand, the 2004 tsunami depositional features
associated with the 2004 tsunami were used to describe the characteristics of tsunamis in a …

A tsunami record in the sedimentary archive of the central Algarve coast, Portugal: characterizing sediment, reconstructing sources and inundation paths

PJM Costa, C Andrade, MC Freitas… - The …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This study describes sedimentation associated with the tsunami generated by the Lisbon
earthquake of ad 1755. It is argued here that the tsunami deposited a sand sheet across the …