Exploring typhoon variability over the mid-to-late Holocene: evidence of extreme coastal flooding from Kamikoshiki, Japan

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 17-18, 2009, Pages 1774-1785

  Woodruff, Jonathan D ^a   Donnelly, Jeffrey P ^b   Okusu, Akiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED; COASTAL FLOODING; COASTAL LAKE; DEPOCENTERS; INVERSE CORRELATION; LATE HOLOCENE; NORTH ATLANTIC; OSCILLATING PATTERN; SEDIMENT CORE; SEISMIC REFLECTORS; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SOUTHWESTERN JAPAN; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; TYPHOON ACTIVITY; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

DEPOSITS; LAKES; LAMINATING; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STORMS; STRATIGRAPHY;

HURRICANES;

BEACH; COASTAL ZONE; FLOODING; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEISMIC SURVEY; STRATIGRAPHY; TYPHOON;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KAMIKOSHIKI ISLAND; KYUSHU;

EID: 67650904224     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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