Geological and historical investigation of the 1650 Mt. Columbo (Thera Island) eruption and tsunami, Aegean Sea, Greece

Natural Hazards

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 83-96

  Dominey Howes, D T M ^a   Papadopoulos, G A ^b   Dawson, A G ^a  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Eruption; Greece; Magnitude assessment; Sediments; Thera; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; TSUNAMI; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

GREECE;

EID: 0034020725     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008178100633     Document Type: Review

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