Heavy minerals in the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami deposits-insights into sediment sources and hydrodynamics

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 57-64

  Jagodziński, Robert ^a   Sternal, Beata ^a   Szczuciński, Witold ^a   Chagué Goff, Catherine ^b,c   Sugawara, Daisuke ^d  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heavy minerals; Japan; Sediment provenance; Tohoku oki tsunami; Tsunami deposits

Indexed keywords

BEACH SEDIMENTS; CLINOPYROXENES; COASTAL PLAIN; GRAIN SIZE; HEAVY MINERALS; JAPAN; MUD DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SEDIMENTATION PROCESS; SOIL EROSION; SOILS AND SEDIMENTS; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS;

BEACHES; DEPOSITS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IRON OXIDES; MINERALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

TSUNAMIS;

AMPHIBOLE; BEACH EROSION; CLINOPYROXENE; COASTAL PLAIN; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUNE; GRAIN SIZE; HEAVY MINERAL; HYDRODYNAMICS; ORTHOPYROXENE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTATION; SHORELINE; SOIL EROSION; TSUNAMI EVENT;

HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; SENDAI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84870428481     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.07.015     Document Type: Article

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