Destruction of the First Nations village of Kwalate by a rock avalanche-generated tsunami

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-128

  Bornhold, Brian D ^a   Harper, John R ^a   McLaren, Duncan ^a   Thomson, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; NATURAL DISASTER; RADIOCARBON DATING; ROCK AVALANCHE; TSUNAMI; VILLAGE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; KNIGHT INLET; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34547132788     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/ao.450205     Document Type: Article

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