Revealing the coastal event-history of the Andaman Islands (Bay of Bengal) during the Holocene using radiocarbon and OSL dating

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1741-1761

  Kunz, Alexander ^a,b   Frechen, Manfred ^b   Ramesh, Ramachandran ^c   Urban, Brigitte ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^c ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Andaman Islands; OSL dating; Palaeoearthquakes; Palaeostorm; Palaeotsunamis; Radiocarbon dating

Indexed keywords

COASTAL SEDIMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; TSUNAMI EVENT;

ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; BAY OF BENGAL; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 78349308694     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-009-0507-4     Document Type: Article

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