Sedimentary processes associated with sand and boulder deposits formed by the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami at Sabusawa Island, Japan

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 188-198

  Goto, Kazuhisa ^a   Sugawara, Daisuke ^b   Ikema, Satoko ^b   Miyagi, Toyohiko ^c  

^a CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku oki tsunami; Boulder; Japan; Sand; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BED LOAD; BOTTOM FRICTION; BOULDER; CLAST SIZES; GROUND SURFACES; JAPAN; SAND DEPOSITS; SAND LAYER; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; SLOPE FAILURE; SUSPENDED SAND; TSUNAMI FLOW; TUFFACEOUS ROCKS;

DEPOSITS; FRICTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SLOPE STABILITY; TSUNAMIS; WATER LEVELS;

SAND;

BOULDER; CLAST; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; GRAIN SIZE; IMBRICATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SLOPE FAILURE; TOPOGRAPHY; TSUNAMI EVENT;

JAPAN;

EID: 84870405968     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.03.017     Document Type: Article

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