Evidence for historic coastal high-energy wave impact (tsunami?) in North Wales, United Kingdom

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 43, Issue , 2007, Pages 137-147

  Haslett, Simon K ^a   Bryant, Edward A ^b  

^a BATH SPA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; HIGH ENERGY ENVIRONMENT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; OCEAN WAVE; TSUNAMI; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE HEIGHT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; GWYNEDD; ISLE OF ANGLESEY; LLEYN PENINSULA; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38849162228     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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