Geological records of tsunamis and other extreme waves / edited by Max Engel, Jessica Pilarczyk, Simon Matthias May, Dominik Brill, Ed Garrett.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, [2020] |
| Description | xxxi, 816 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Earth and Planetary Sciences 2020 [EBCEPS20] |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Engel, Max, 1981- |
| Other author/creator | Pilarczyk, Jessica. |
| Other author/creator | May, Simon M. |
| Other author/creator | Brill, Dominik. |
| Other author/creator | Garrett, Ed. |
| Contents | Introduction. Geological records of tsunamis and other extreme waves : concepts, applications and a short history of research / Max Engel, Simon Matthias May, Jessica Pilarczyk, Dominik Brill and Ed Garrett -- Historical records : their importance in understanding and mitigating tsunamis / Alessandra Maramai -- Tsunami magnitude scales / Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos, Fumihiko Imamura, Mikhail Nosov and Marinos Charalampakis -- Trigger mechanisms and hydrodynamics of tsunamis / Daisuke Sugawara -- Tsunami databases / James Goff -- Onshore archives of tsunami deposits / Sue Dawson, Pedro J.M. Costa, Alastair Dawson and Max Engel -- Field methods. Geophysical prospection and sedimentolgical characteristics of subaquatic tsunami deposits / Klaus Schwarzer -- Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) in coastal hazard studies / Adam D. Switzer, Chris Gouramanis, Charles S. Bristow and Alexander R. Simms -- Mapping of subaerial coarse clasts / Dirk Hoffmeister -- Post-event field surveys / Dale Dominey-Howes -- Fine-grained deposits. The sedimentology and geometry of fine-grained tsunami deposits from onshore environments / Michaela Spiske -- Foraminifera in tsunami deposits / Andrea D. Hawkes -- Ostracoda in extreme-wave deposits / Chris Gouramanis -- Diatoms in tsunami deposits / Tina Dura and Eileen Hemphill-Haley -- The application of molluscs for investigating tsunami deposits / Akihisa Kitamura -- Magnetic susceptibility and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility : versatile tools to decipher hydrodynamic characteristics of past tsunamis / Patrick Wassmer, Eric Font, Christopher Gomez and T. Yan W.M. Iskandarsyah -- X-ray tomography applied to tsunami deposits / Raphaël Paris -- Applications of geochemical proxies in paleotsunami research / Catherine Chagué -- Microtextures in tsunami deposits : a useful sediment fingerprinting tool / Pedro J.M. Costa -- Paleogenetic approaches in tsunami deposit studies / Max Engel, Isa Schön, Tasnim Patel, Jan Pawłowski, Witold Szczuciński, Sue Dawson, Ed Garrett and Vanessa M.A. Heyvaert -- Post-depositional changes to tsunami deposits and their preservation potential / Witold Szczuciński -- Erosional signatures and reorganization in ridge-and-swale sequences / Katrin Monecke -- Experimental and numerical models of fine sediment transport by tsunamis / Davin J. Wallace and Jonathan D. Woodruff -- Coarse-clast deposits. Spatial patterns of subaerial coarse clasts / A.Y. Annie Lau and Ronan Autret -- Mega-tsunami deposits related to ocean island flank collapses and asteroid impacts / Raphaël Paris -- Erosive impact of tsunami and storm waves on rocky coasts and post-depositional weathering of coarse-clast deposits / Dieter Kelletat, Max Engel, Simon Matthias May, Wibke Erdmann, Anja Scheffers and Helmut Brückner -- Experimental models of coarse-clast transport by tsunamis / Jan Oetjen, Holger Schüttrumpf and Maxe Engel -- Reconstruction of transport modes and flow parameters from coastal boulders / Masashi Watanabe, Kazuhisa Goto and Fumihiko Imamura -- Perspective of incipient motion formulas : boulder transport by high-energy waves / N.A.K. Nandasena -- Dating. Radiocarbon dating of tsunami and storm deposits / Harvey M. Kelsey and Robert C. Witter -- Radiocarbon and U/Th dating of tsunami- and storm-transported coarse clasts / Daisuke Araoka -- Optically stimulated luminescence dating of tsunami and storm deposits / Dominik Brill and Toru Tamura -- Archaeological dating of tsunami and storm deposits / Beverly N. Goodman-Tchernov -- Tephrostratigraphy and tephrochronology / Tatiana K. Pinegina and Joanne Bourgeois -- Cosmogenic nuclide dating of coarse clasts / Gilles Rixhon -- Paleomagnetic dating of wave-emplaced boulders / Tetsuro Sato, Norihiro Nakamura, Kazuhisa Goto, Masaki Yamada, Yuho Kumagai, Hiroyuki Nagahama and Koji Minoura. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019947915 |
| ISBN | 0128156864 |
| ISBN | 9780128156865 (print) |
| ISBN | (ePub ebook) |
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