Erosion, deposition and landscape change on the Sendai coastal plain, Japan, resulting from the March 11, 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-39

  Richmond, Bruce ^a   Szczuciński, Witold ^b   Chagué Goff, Catherine ^c,d   Goto, Kazuhisa ^e   Sugawara, Daisuke ^f   Witter, Rob ^a   Tappin, David R ^g   Jaffe, Bruce ^a   Fujino, Shigehiro ^h   Nishimura, Yuichi ⁱ   Goff, James ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^e CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

ⁱ HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Landscape change; Recovery; Sedimentology; Sendai plain; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

COASTAL FOREST; COASTAL PLAIN; FIELD SURVEYS; GEOLOGIC PROCESS; INCIDENT WAVES; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LOCALIZED FEATURES; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MUD CONTENTS; RETURN FLOW; RICE FIELDS; SAND BEACH; SAND DEPOSITS; SAND DUNES; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SENDAI PLAIN; SEVERE EROSION; STUDY AREAS; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS; TSUNAMI FLOW; TSUNAMI INUNDATION;

DEPOSITS; EROSION; FLOODS; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MAPPING; RECOVERY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

TSUNAMIS;

BEACH EROSION; COASTAL PLAIN; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; EOLIAN PROCESS; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHORELINE CHANGE; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE HEIGHT;

BUILDINGS; COASTS; DEPOSITION; EROSION; FLOODING; FORESTS; GEOLOGY; JAPAN; MAPPING; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; SENDAI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84870431721     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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