Brief Communication: Cetaceans and tsunamis - Whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 855-857

  Goff, J R ^a   Chague Goff C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETACEAN; COASTAL ZONE; LAND SURFACE; SKELETON; TSUNAMI;

NEW ZEALAND;

CETACEA; CHELONIIDAE; CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 77949620947     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-9-855-2009     Document Type: Article

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