Remarkable bathymetric change in the nearshore zone by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: Kirinda Harbor, Sri Lanka

Geomorphology

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 107-116

  Goto, Kazuhisa ^a   Takahashi, Jun ^a,b   Oie, Takayuki ^a,c   Imamura, Fumihiko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO INC   (Japan)

^c Pacific Consultants Co Ltd ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; Bathymetry; Kirinda; Sediment; Sri Lanka; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; HARBOR; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; TSUNAMI; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE RUNUP;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 79951773665     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.12.011     Document Type: Article

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