Variations in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami deposits thickness and their preservation potential, southwestern Thailand

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 923-930

  Goto, Kazuhisa ^a,c   Takahashi, Jun ^a,d   Fujino, Shigehiro ^b,e  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO INC   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Local variation; Preservation; Thailand; The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; Tsunami deposit

Indexed keywords

COASTAL SEDIMENT; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; PRESERVATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TSUNAMI;

THAILAND;

EID: 84876380947     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.08.019     Document Type: Article

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