Nine unusually large tsunami deposits from the past 4000 years at Kiritappu marsh along the southern Kuril Trench

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 200, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 275-294

  Nanayama, Futoshi ^a   Furukawa, Ryuta ^a   Shigeno, Kiyoyuki ^b   Makino, Akito ^b   Soeda, Yuji ^c   Igarashi, Yaeko ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Pacific Consultants Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c Historical Museum of Hokkaido   (Japan)

^d Institute for Paleoenvironment of Northern Regions   (Japan)

Author keywords

AMS 14C age dating; Diatom and pollen analysis; Eastern Hokkaido; Grain size analysis; Kuril subduction zone; Large earthquake; Recurrence interval; Sedimentary structure; Tephrochronology; Tsunami deposit

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; BEDLOAD; DIATOM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GRAIN SIZE; MARSH; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM DEPOSIT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; KURIL TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 34547420798     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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