Environmental impact assessment of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami on the Sendai Plain

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 175-187

  Chagué Goff, Catherine ^a,b   Niedzielski, Przemyslaw ^c   Wong, Henri K Y ^b   Szczuciński, Witold ^c   Sugawara, Daisuke ^d   Goff, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental impact; Japan; Saltwater contamination; Surface waters; Tsunami deposits

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND LEVEL; BRACKISH WATER; CATION CONCENTRATIONS; CROP PRODUCTION; FIELD SURVEYS; GRAIN SIZE; JAPAN; LEACHABLE METALS; ORGANIC CONTENT; PADDY FIELDS; RICE PADDY; SALT CONTAMINATION; SEDIMENT LAYERS; SEDIMENTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; SURFACE SAMPLE; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS; TSUNAMI INUNDATION; TSUNAMI SEDIMENTS; VERTICAL VARIATION;

BROMINE; CHLORINE; COPPER; CULTIVATION; DEPOSITS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; FLOODS; IONS; SALT REMOVAL; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; SURFACE WATERS;

TSUNAMIS;

ANION; CATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MARINE POLLUTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFACE WATER; TSUNAMI EVENT;

HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; SENDAI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84870425101     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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