Tsunami waves generated by the Santorini eruption reached Eastern Mediterranean shores

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 943-946

  Goodman Tchernov, Beverly N ^a,b   Dey, Hendrik W ^c   Reinhardt, Eduard G ^d   McCoy, Floyd ^e,f   Mart, Yossi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e University of Hawaii Windward Community College   (United States)

^f American School of Classical Studies at Athens   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; COASTAL MANAGEMENT; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; FOUR-CORE; LATE BRONZE AGE; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; SHEET-LIKE; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS; TSUNAMI WAVES; TSUNAMIGENIC; WATER DEPTH;

DEPOSITS; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

TSUNAMIS;

BRONZE AGE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOSITION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANAR BEDDING STRUCTURE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TSUNAMI; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WAVE FIELD; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CYCLADAS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); SANTORIN; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350385217     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25704A.1     Document Type: Article

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