Australasian palaeotsunamis - Do Australia and New Zealand have a shared trans-Tasman prehistory?

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 97, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages

  Goff, James ^a   Dominey Howes, Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australasia; evidence; history; palaeotsunami; risk

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DATABASE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PREHISTORIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TSUNAMI; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 77952888340     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.09.003     Document Type: Review

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