Sedimentary Deposits from the 17 July 2006 Western Java Tsunami, Indonesia: Use of Grain Size Analyses to Assess Tsunami Flow Depth, Speed, and Traction Carpet Characteristics

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 168, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1951-1961

  Moore, Andrew ^a   Goff, James ^b   McAdoo, Brian G ^c   Fritz, Hermann M ^d   Gusman, Aditya ^e   Kalligeris, Nikos ^f   Kalsum, Kenia ^e   Susanto, Arif ^e   Suteja, Debora ^e   Synolakis, Costas E ^g  

^a EARLHAM COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^g Viterbi School of Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Java; traction carpet; Tsunami deposit

Indexed keywords

BEACH SAND; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN SIZE ANALYSIS; HEAVY MINERALS; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH SHEAR RATE; INDONESIA; JAVA; PADDY SOILS; RICE PADDY; SAND SHEET; SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZE; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; TSUNAMI DEPOSIT; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS; TSUNAMI FLOW; TSUNAMI SEDIMENTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BEACHES; DEPOSITS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MINERALS; PARALLEL FLOW; SAND; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; STRATIGRAPHY; TRACTION (FRICTION);

TSUNAMIS;

DEPOSITION; FLOW PATTERN; GRAIN SIZE; HEAVY MINERAL; PADDY FIELD; SAND; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TSUNAMI EVENT;

CENTRAL JAVA; CILACAP; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; JAVA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 80955131198     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0280-8     Document Type: Article

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