Paleo-tsunami relics on the southern and central Antillean Island Arc

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 263-273

  Scheffers, Anja ^a   Scheffers, Sander ^b   Kelletat, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

14C dating; Grenada; Guadeloupe; St. Lucia; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; TSUNAMI;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

LUCIA;

EID: 18044378581     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/03-0144.1     Document Type: Review

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