Huge erratic boulders in Tonga deposited by a prehistoric tsunami

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-134

  Frohlich, Cliff ^a   Hornbach, Matthew J ^a   Taylor, Frederick W ^a   Shen, Chuan Chou ^b   Moala, Apai ^c   Morton, Allan E ^d   Kruger, Jens ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Ministry of Lands Survey and Natural Resources   (Tonga)

^d South Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission ^*  (United States)

^e SOPAC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDSLIDES; LIME; LIMESTONE; LIQUEFACTION; SEA LEVEL; SEARCH ENGINES; STORMS; SUBMARINES; VOLCANOES;

COASTAL HAZARDS; CORAL LIMESTONE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SUBMARINE SLOPE FAILURES; SUBMARINE SLOPES; SYSTEMATIC SEARCHES; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS;

TSUNAMIS;

BOULDER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; EMPLACEMENT; ERRATIC; INTERGLACIAL; LIMESTONE; SLOPE FAILURE; STORM; THORIUM ISOTOPE; TSUNAMI EVENT;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; TONGA; TONGATAPU;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 69649097467     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25277A.1     Document Type: Article

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