An early Holocene submarine slide in Boknafjorden and the effect of a slide-triggered tsunami on Stone Age settlements at Rennesøy, SW Norway

Marine Geology

Volumn 243, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 157-168

  Bøe, Reidulv ^a   Prøsch Danielsen, Lisbeth ^b   Lepland, Aivo ^a   Harbitz, Carl B ^c   Gauer, Peter ^c   Løvholt, Finn ^c   Høgestøl, Mari ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b Archaeological Museum of Stavanger   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Boknafjorden; numerical simulation; slide; Stone Age settlement; tsunami

Indexed keywords

ISOSTATIC UPLIFT; SEISMIC DATA; STONE AGE SETTLEMENT; TRANSPORTED DOWNSLOPE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; EXCAVATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SETTLEMENT OF STRUCTURES; SUBMARINES; TSUNAMIS;

MARINE ENGINEERING;

ARTIFACT; EROSION; HOLOCENE; MESOLITHIC; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA; STONE AGE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TRANSGRESSION; TSUNAMI;

BOKNAFJORDEN; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; ROGALAND; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34547738063     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.04.015     Document Type: Article

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