Geological evidence of paleotsunamis at Torre degli Inglesi (northeast Sicily)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Pantosti, D ^a   Barbano, M S ^b   Smedile, A ^a,b   De Martini, P M ^a   Tigano, G ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Messina   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SAND; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION; COLLUVIA; MICROPALEONTOLOGIC ANALYSES; RADIOCARBON;

TSUNAMIS;

COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON DATING; TSUNAMI;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TORRE DEGLI INGLESI;

EID: 43549121007     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032935     Document Type: Article

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