Flow speed estimated by inverse modeling of sandy sediment deposited by the 29 September 2009 tsunami near Satitoa, east Upolu, Samoa

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 23-37

  Jaffe, Bruce ^a   Buckley, Mark ^a   Richmond, Bruce ^a   Strotz, Luke ^b   Etienne, Samuel ^c   Clark, Kate ^d   Watt, Steve ^a   Gelfenbaum, Guy ^e   Goff, James ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE   (French Polynesia)

^d GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grading; Inverse model; Samoa; Sediment transport; Suspension; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; FLOW VELOCITY; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAIN SIZE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SETTLING VELOCITY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TSUNAMI; WAVE RUNUP;

SAMOA;

EID: 79958836080     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.03.009     Document Type: Review

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