Expanding the proxy toolkit to help identify past events - Lessons from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2009 South Pacific Tsunami

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 107-122

  Chagué Goff, Catherine ^a,b   Schneider, Jean Luc ^c   Goff, James R ^a   Dominey Howes, Dale ^a   Strotz, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

2009 South Pacific Tsunami; Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility; Chemical proxies; Heavy minerals; Proxies; Toolkit

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GRAIN SIZE; HEAVY MINERAL; HYDRODYNAMICS; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SALT WATER; TSUNAMI EVENT;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

ANTHOZOA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 79958797457     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.03.007     Document Type: Review

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