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 …

Sedimentologic and geomorphologic tsunami imprints worldwide—a review

A Scheffers, D Kelletat - Earth-Science Reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
Tsunami events with extreme effects on sedimentary transport or considerable alterations of
the coastal configuration are rather rare regarding human history, but considering geological …

Tsunami sedimentary facies deposited by the Storegga tsunami in shallow marine basins and coastal lakes, western Norway

S Bondevik, JI Svendsen, JAN Mangerud - Sedimentology, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Sedimentary successions in small coastal lakes situated from 0 to 11 m above the 7000 year
BP shoreline along the western coast of Norway, contain a distinctive deposit, very different …

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 …

Distinguishing tsunami from storm deposits in eastern North America: the 1929 Grand Banks tsunami versus the 1991 Halloween storm

MP Tuttle, A Ruffman… - Seismological …, 2004 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Tsunami deposits related to the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake and washover deposits
related to the 1991 Halloween storm differ in their sedimentary characteristics and positions …

Identifying coseismic subsidence in tidal‐wetland stratigraphic sequences at the Cascadia subduction zone of western North America

AR Nelson, I Shennan, AJ Long - Journal of Geophysical …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Tidal‐wetland stratigraphy reveals that great plate boundary earthquakes have caused
hundreds of kilometers of coast to subside at the Cascadia subduction zone. However …

The holocene storegga slide tsunami in the United Kingdom

DE Smith, S Shi, RA Cullingford, AG Dawson… - Quaternary science …, 2004 - Elsevier
All currently known sites in the United Kingdom with evidence for the Holocene Storegga
Slide tsunami are described. Information on the altitude, distribution, stratigraphical context …

Evidence for large earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone

JJ Clague - Reviews of Geophysics, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Large, historically unprecedented earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone in western
North America have left signs of sudden land level change, tsunamis, and strong shaking in …

Pyroclastic flows and surges over water: an example from the 1883 Krakatau eruption

S Carey, H Sigurdsson, C Mandeville, S Bronto - Bulletin of Volcanology, 1996 - Springer
Pyroclastic deposits from the 1883 eruption of Krakatau are described from areas northeast
of the volcano on the islands of Sebesi, Sebuku, and Lagoendi, and the southeast coast of …

Large-scale washover sedimentation in a freshwater lagoon from the southeast Australian coast: sea-level change, tsunami or exceptionally large storm?

AD Switzer, BG Jones - The Holocene, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
A distinct lens of marine sand, up to 90 cm thick, confined vertically by peat, is found in the
upper fill of a closed freshwater back-barrier lagoon on the southeast Australian coast …