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 …

Geoarchaeology of the Roman port-city of Ostia: Fluvio-coastal mobility, urban development and resilience

F Salomon, JP Goiran, B Noirot, E Pleuger… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Ostia is one of the most extensively excavated cities of the Roman period. The port-city of
Rome, which today lies 4 km from the coastline, was established in a very constrained …

Tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the Mediterranean

N Marriner, D Kaniewski, C Morhange, C Flaux… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
From 2000 to 2015, tsunamis and storms killed more than 430,000 people worldwide and
affected a further> 530 million, with total damages exceeding US $970 billion. These …

Constraining electric resistivity tomography by direct push electric conductivity logs and vibracores: an exemplary study of the Fiume Morto silted riverbed (Ostia Antica …

T Wunderlich, P Fischer, D Wilken, H Hadler, E Erkul… - Geophysics, 2018 - library.seg.org
The inversion of geoelectric data is nonunique. Therefore, electric resistivity tomography
(ERT) usually results in different subsurface models that fit observed apparent resistivity …

The sedimentary and geomorphological imprint of the AD 365 tsunami on the coasts of southwestern Crete (Greece)–Examples from Sougia and Palaiochora

V Werner, K Baika, P Fischer, H Hadler, L Obrocki… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The southwestern coast of Crete, one of the most seismically active regions in Europe,
experienced co-seismic crust uplift by 9 m during the Ms= 8.3 mega-earthquake that struck …

Multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental record of coastal tectonic uplift and abandonment (ca. 6th c. CE) of Lechaion's inner harbour, ancient Corinth, Greece

NL Riddick, JI Boyce, EG Reinhardt… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lechaion's inner harbour basin was constructed in the 7th-6th c. BCE and served as
Corinth's principal port for over a millennium. The harbour decline and abandonment in the …

The development and characteristics of ancient harbours—applying the PADM chart to the case studies of Ostia and Portus

F Salomon, S Keay, N Carayon, JP Goiran - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Over the last 20 years, the geoarchaeology of ancient harbours has been a very active area
of research around the Mediterranean basin, generating much palaeoenvironmental data …

Marine and marginal marine Ostracoda as proxies in geoarchaeology

I Mazzini, G Aiello, P Frenzel, A Pint - Marine Micropaleontology, 2022 - Elsevier
Ostracoda, minute aquatic crustaceans with calcitic shells, are highly versatile proxies in
geoarchaeological contexts. Their species-specific ecological preferences and ranges allow …

Long‐Term Interactions between the Roman City of Ostia and Its Paleomeander, Tiber Delta, Italy

F Salomon, JP Goiran, S Pannuzi, H Djerbi… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the long‐term interactions between the well‐known Roman city of Ostia
and a river meander. Located at the mouth of the Tiber river, Ostia was a major harbor city …

The river harbour of Ostia Antica-stratigraphy, extent and harbour infrastructure from combined geophysical measurements and drillings

T Wunderlich, D Wilken, E Erkul, W Rabbel, A Vött… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
We performed a combined geophysical and geoarchaeological survey of the harbour of
ancient Ostia, Italy, to investigate the extent of the former harbour basin, the sedimentary …