Bonaire's boulder fields revisited: Evidence for Holocene tsunami impact on the Leeward Antilles

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue , 2012, Pages 126-141

  Engel, Max ^a   May, Simon Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boulder transport; Bulk density; Caribbean; Coastal hazard; Coral limestone; Tsunami; Volume calculation

Indexed keywords

BOULDER TRANSPORT; BULK DENSITY; CARIBBEAN; COASTAL HAZARDS; CORAL LIMESTONE; VOLUME CALCULATION;

HURRICANES; REEFS; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

TSUNAMIS;

BOULDER; BULK DENSITY; DISLOCATION; LIMESTONE; SHORELINE; STORMWATER; TSUNAMI; VOLUME; WAVE ENERGY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BONAIRE; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES];

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84867732433     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.12.011     Document Type: Article

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