The tsunami phenomenon

BR Röbke, A Vött - Progress in Oceanography, 2017 - Elsevier
With human activity increasingly concentrating on coasts, tsunamis (from Japanese tsu=
harbour, nami= wave) are a major natural hazard to today's society. Stimulated by disastrous …

Tsunami deposits: present knowledge and future challenges

PJM Costa, C Andrade - Sedimentology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tsunami deposits are the primary source of information on (past) large tsunami events and
thereby are crucial for accurate hazard assessments. Tsunami deposits studies have …

Holocene offshore tsunami archive–Tsunami deposits on the Algarve shelf (Portugal)

L Feist, PJM Costa, P Bellanova, I Bosnic… - Sedimentary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The well-known 1755 CE Lisbon tsunami caused widespread destruction along the Iberian
and northern Moroccan coastlines. Being affected by the powerful 1755 CE Lisbon tsunami …

A comprehensive review of tsunami and palaeotsunami research in Chile

T León, AYA Lau, G Easton, J Goff - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Chile is a tsunami-prone country. Since the 1960 Chilean earthquake triggered a Pacific-
wide tsunami, there has been a considerable amount of research conducted on the geologic …

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 …

An example of a highly bioturbated, storm‐influenced shoreface deposit: Upper Jurassic Ula Formation, Norwegian North Sea

GM Baniak, MK Gingras, BA Burns… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated ichnological and sedimentological analyses of core samples from the Upper
Jurassic Ula Formation in the Norwegian Central Graben were undertaken to quantify the …

Preservation potential of tsunami deposits on arid siliciclastic coasts

M Spiske, J Piepenbreier, C Benavente… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Numerous post-tsunami surveys have been conducted in the last two decades, especially
since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. These studies have documented a variety of …

Contrasting storm-versus tsunami-related shell beds in shallow-water ramps

Á Puga-Bernabéu, J Aguirre - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Shell beds are sedimentary features that can potentially provide significant
palaeoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphic information. High-energy events, such as …

The AD 1755 tsunami deposits onshore and offshore of Algarve (south Portugal): Sediment transport interpretations based on the study of Foraminifera assemblages

M Quintela, PJM Costa, F Fatela, T Drago… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Tsunamis are amongst the most catastrophic natural hazards affecting worldwide coastal
areas. Their impacts are recorded in the geological archives and its study provides crucial …

Post-depositional alteration of onshore tsunami deposits–Implications for the reconstruction of past events

M Spiske, H Tang, H Bahlburg - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Sediments provide information on parameters governing their deposition. However, this
information gets blurred by post-depositional processes. Here, we document post …