Tsunami sediment characteristics at the Thai Andaman Coast

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-232

  Srisutam, Chanchai ^a   Wagner, Jean Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sediment transport; Thailand; Tsunami runup; Tsunami sediment

Indexed keywords

COASTAL SEDIMENT; COASTAL ZONE; DEPOSITION; EROSION; GRAIN SIZE; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SKEWNESS; TEXTURE; WAVE RUNUP;

THAILAND;

EID: 77951937485     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-009-0015-2     Document Type: Article

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