Complex tsunami waves suggested by the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary deposit at the Moncada section, western Cuba

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 109-123

  Tada, R ^a   Nakano, Y ^a   Iturralde Vinent, M A ^b   Yamamoto, S ^a   Kamata, T ^a   Tajika, E ^a   Toyoda, K ^c   Kiyokawa, S ^d   Garcia Delgado, D ^e   Oji, T ^a   Goto, K ^a   Takayama, H ^a,f   Rojas Consuegra, R ^b   Matsui, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cuba   (Cuba)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Instituto de Geologia y Paleontologia La Habana   (Cuba)

^f NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; SANDSTONE;

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; GRAIN SIZE VARIATION; GULF OF MEXICO; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MULTIPLE GRAVITY; SEISMIC SHOCKS; SHOCKED QUARTZ;

TSUNAMIS;

CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; GRAIN SIZE; IRIDIUM; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOCURRENT; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE HEIGHT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84871976657     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.109     Document Type: Article

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