Predecessors to the 2009 South Pacific tsunami in the Wallis and Futuna archipelago

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 91-106

  Goff, James ^a   Lamarche, Geoffroy ^b   Pelletier, Bernard ^c   Chagué Goff, Catherine ^a,d   Strotz, Luke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Frequency; Kuwae; Magnitude; Micropalaeontology; Pacific; Palaeotsunami deposits; Sources

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHIPELAGO; ARTIFACT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; HISTORICAL RECORD; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; TRENCH; TSUNAMI EVENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); WALLIS AND FUTUNA;

EID: 79958806066     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.11.003     Document Type: Review

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