Assessing enigmatic boulder deposits in NE Aegean Sea: Importance of historical sources as tool to support hydrodynamic equations

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1109-1118

  Vacchi, M ^a,b   Rovere, A ^a,b,d   Zouros, N ^c   Firpo, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b SEAMap Srl   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; COASTAL ZONE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; TSUNAMI;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; AEGEAN SEA; GREECE; LESBOS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTHERN AEGEAN;

PARLATORIA ZIZIPHI;

EID: 84860247196     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-12-1109-2012     Document Type: Article

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