Potential predecessors of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami - Sedimentary evidence of extreme wave events at Ban Bang Sak, SW Thailand

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 239, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 146-161

  Brill, D ^a   Bruckner H ^a   Jankaew, K ^b   Kelletat, D ^c   Scheffers, A ^d   Scheffers, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Holocene; Palaeotsunami; Sedimentology; Thailand; Tsunami; Tsunami deposit

Indexed keywords

BASIN WIDE; COASTAL FLOODING; COASTAL PLAIN; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME WAVE EVENTS; GRANULOMETRIES; HIGH-ENERGY EVENTS; HISTORICAL RECORDS; HOLOCENES; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; PALAEOTSUNAMI; SAND-BEDS; SEDIMENT PROPERTIES; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; THAILAND; TROPICAL STORMS; TSUNAMI DEPOSIT; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COASTAL ZONES; DEPOSITS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STORMS;

TSUNAMIS;

COASTAL PLAIN; COASTAL ZONE; EXTREME EVENT; HOLOCENE; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TSUNAMI;

THAILAND;

EID: 80051862640     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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