Progress in palaeotsunami research

J Goff, C Chagué-Goff, S Nichol, B Jaffe… - Sedimentary …, 2012 - Elsevier
The study of palaeotsunamis preserved in the sedimentary record has developed over the
past three decades to a point where the criteria used to identify these events range from well …

Expanding the proxy toolkit to help identify past events—Lessons from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2009 South Pacific Tsunami

C Chagué-Goff, JL Schneider, JR Goff… - Earth-Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Some of the proxies used to identify palaeotsunamis are reviewed in light of new findings
following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2009 South Pacific Tsunami, and a …

New insights of tsunami hazard from the 2011 Tohoku-oki event

K Goto, C Chagué-Goff, S Fu**o, J Goff, B Jaffe… - Marine Geology, 2011 - Elsevier
We report initial results from our recent field survey documenting the inundation and
resultant deposits of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami from Sendai Plain, Japan. The tsunami …

Sediment sources and sedimentation processes of 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami deposits on the Sendai Plain, Japan—insights from diatoms, nannoliths and grain size …

W Szczuciński, M Kokociński, M Rzeszewski… - Sedimentary …, 2012 - Elsevier
The 11th March 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami inundated the low-lying Sendai Plain (Japan)
more than 5km inland leaving sand and mud deposits over most of the area. In order to …

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 …

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 …

Microfossils from coastal environments as indicators of paleo-earthquakes, tsunamis and storms

JE Pilarczyk, T Dura, BP Horton, SE Engelhart… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
Coastal risk assessment and hazard mitigation require datasets on centennial and
millennial temporal scales to capture natural variability and multiple occurrences of the …

High-resolution analysis of a tsunami deposit: Case-study from the 1755 Lisbon tsunami in southwestern Spain

S Cuven, R Paris, S Falvard, E Miot-Noirault… - Marine Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
A multi-proxy approach using trench sediment analysis on the southwestern coast of Spain
(Los Lances Bay, Andalusia) provides a high-resolution record of the 1755 Lisbon tsunami …

Coastal evidence for Holocene subduction-zone earthquakes and tsunamis in central Chile

T Dura, M Cisternas, BP Horton, LL Ely… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The∼ 500-year historical record of seismicity along the central Chile coast (30–34° S) is
characterized by a series of∼ M 8.0–8.5 earthquakes followed by low tsunamis (< 4 m) …

The application of diatoms to reconstruct the history of subduction zone earthquakes and tsunamis

T Dura, E Hemphill-Haley, Y Sawai, BP Horton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Earthquake and tsunami records on centennial and millennial temporal scales are
necessary to understanding long-term subduction zone behavior and the occurrences of …