Recovery estimates for the Río Cruces after the May 1960 Chilean earthquake

Marine Geology

Volumn 269, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 18-33

  Reinhardt, E G ^a   Nairn, R B ^b   Lopez, G ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WF Baird & Associates Coastal Engineers   (Canada)

Author keywords

1960 Chilean earthquake; coseismic subsidence; particle size; sedimentation rates; thecamoebians

Indexed keywords

1960 CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; COMPACTION RATES; COSEISMIC SUBSIDENCE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN SOILS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ORGANIC-RICH SEDIMENT; RECOVERY TIME; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; RIVER SEDIMENTS; RIVER SYSTEMS; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; WATER DEPTH; WIDE AREA; WILLAPA BAY , WASHINGTON;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CESIUM; EARTHQUAKES; LEAD; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; SUBSIDENCE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CORE ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FACIES; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; MICROFOSSIL; PARTICLE SIZE; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSIDENCE; TSUNAMI; UPLIFT;

ALASKA; CHILE; CRUCES RIVER; PORTAGE GLACIER; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WILLAPA BAY;

CENTROPYXIS; CENTROPYXIS ACULEATA; CUCURBITELLA TRICUSPIS; DIFFLUGIA; DIFFLUGIA OBLONGA;

EID: 74449084828     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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