A unique 4000year long geological record of multiple tsunami inundations in the Augusta Bay (eastern Sicily, Italy)

Marine Geology

Volumn 276, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 42-57

  De Martini, P M ^a   Barbano, M S ^b   Smedile, A ^a   Gerardi, F ^b   Pantosti, D ^a   Del Carlo, P ^c   Pirrotta, C ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

1693, 365 AD Crete Santorini tsunamis; Micropaleontology; Tephrostratigraphy; Tsunami deposits

Indexed keywords

1693, 365 AD CRETE SANTORINI TSUNAMIS; AEGEAN SEA; AGE ESTIMATION; CIVIL PROTECTION; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL HAZARDS; HISTORICAL RECORDS; IONIAN SEA; LABORATORY ANALYSIS; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; STUDY CASE; TEPHROSTRATIGRAPHY; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS; TSUNAMI INUNDATION;

COASTAL ZONES; DEPOSITS; FLOODS; HOSPITALS;

TSUNAMIS;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TSUNAMI EVENT;

AUGUSTA BAY; IONIAN SEA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SICILY; SIRACUSA;

EID: 77956395603     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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