Relationship between the maximum extent of tsunami sand and the inundation limit of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami on the Sendai Plain, Japan

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 142-150

  Abe, Tomoya ^a   Goto, Kazuhisa ^b   Sugawara, Daisuke ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku oki tsunami; Inundation limit; Maximum extent of sand; Sendai Coastal Plain; Tsunami deposit

Indexed keywords

COASTAL AREA; COASTAL PLAIN; INUNDATION DISTANCE; INUNDATION LIMIT; SAND DEPOSITS; SAND LAYER; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS; TSUNAMI RISK;

DEPOSITS; FLOODS; RISK PERCEPTION; SAND;

TSUNAMIS;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; COASTAL ZONE; SAND; TSUNAMI EVENT;

HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; SENDAI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84870456794     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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