Tsunami inundation and sediment transport in a sediment-limited embayment on American Samoa

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Apotsos, Alex ^a   Gelfenbaum, Guy ^a   Jaffe, Bruce ^b   Watt, Steve ^b   Peck, Brian ^c   Buckley, Mark ^b   Stevens, Andrew ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

American Samoa; Numerical modeling; Sediment transport; South Pacific tsunami; Tsunami inundation

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BEACH; DEPOSITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TOPOGRAPHY; TSUNAMI; WAVE FORCE;

AMERICAN SAMOA; TUTUILA;

EID: 79958839726     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.11.001     Document Type: Review

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