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Thickness and grain-size distribution of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami deposits in Periya Kalapuwa Lagoon, eastern Sri Lanka
Dan Matsumoto,Toshihiko Shimamoto,Takehiro Hirose,Jagath Gunatilake,Ashvin Wickramasooriya,Jeffrey DeLile,Sansfica M. Young,Chaminda Rathnayake,Jay Ranasooriya,Masafumi Murayama +9 more
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In this article, the authors describe the sedimentary characteristics of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami deposits in and around Periya Kalapuwa Lagoon, Sri Lanka and show that the tsunami deposits are 9 cm thick on average (up to 35 cm in the lagoon and up to 66 cm on the shore) and are composed mainly of medium sand (mean grain size 1.06 φ) with low mud content (0.61 ¼ ).About:
This article is published in Sedimentary Geology.The article was published on 2010-10-15. It has received 38 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sand dune stabilization & Sedimentary rock.read more
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Deposition by the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami on coastal lowland controlled by beach ridges near Sendai, Japan
TL;DR: A study of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami deposits on the coastal lowland of the Sendai Plain, Japan was carried out along a shore-perpendicular survey line in the Arahama area, where field descriptions and tsunami water depth measurements were complemented by sedimentary analyses, including grain size, grain fabric and diatom analysis as discussed by the authors.
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Preservation potential of tsunami deposits on arid siliciclastic coasts
TL;DR: A review of the changes that have affected muddy to sandy siliciclastic tsunami deposits in Peru is presented in this paper, where the authors show that the preservation of arid-coast tsunami deposits depends on interactions that are more complex that hitherto perceived.
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Remarkable bathymetric change in the nearshore zone by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: Kirinda Harbor, Sri Lanka
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated bathymetric data obtained at Kirinda Harbor, Sri Lanka one month before and 2 and 11 months after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and found that the harbor bathymetry had almost undergone complete reversion to its pre-tsunami condition, implying that the tsunami impact on permanent geomorphological landforms was limited.
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Lagoons of Sri Lanka: from the origins to the present
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Propagation of the Storegga tsunami into ice-free lakes along the southern shores of the Barents Sea
TL;DR: Romundset's doctoral thesis as discussed by the authors is part of Anders Romundset doctoral thesis, which is available in Munin at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2703
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Sedimentary structures, their character and physical basis
TL;DR: In this article, a model of transverse bedforms in Unidirectional Flows is presented, along with cross-stratification patterns of Ripples and Dunes in Changing Flows.
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Physical criteria for distinguishing sandy tsunami and storm deposits using modern examples
TL;DR: In this article, modern subaerial sand beds deposited by major tsunamis and hurricanes were compared at trench, transect, and sub-regional spatial scales to evaluate which attributes are most useful for distinguishing the two types of deposits.
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Unusually large earthquakes inferred from tsunami deposits along the Kuril trench
Futoshi Nanayama,Kenji Satake,Ryuta Furukawa,Koichi Shimokawa,Brian F. Atwater,Kiyoyuki Shigeno,Shigeru Yamaki +6 more
TL;DR: Stratigraphic series of extensive sand sheets, intercalated with dated volcanic-ash layers, show that such unusually large tsunamis occurred about every 500 years on average over the past 2,000–7,000 years, most recently ∼350 years ago.
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The Storegga Slides: Evidence from eastern Scotland for a possible tsunami
TL;DR: The Second Storegga Slide on the continental slope off western Norway has been dated at between 8000 and 5000 yrs B.P. as mentioned in this paper, and the altitude and stratigraphy of the layer allow estimates to be made of the magnitude of the earthquake which initiated the slide.
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Traces of Tsunami Preserved in Inter-Tidal Lacustrine and Marsh Deposits: Some Examples from Northeast Japan
Koji Minoura,Shyu Nakaya +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that layered deposits, similar to those developed by the Tsunami of the Japan Sea Earthquake, are common in the drilled cores, and the estimated ages of these deposits are exactly equivalent to the dates of ancient tsunamis documented in historical records.