Tsunamis and Tsunami Sedimentology

Tsunamiites - Features and Implications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-49

  Sugawara, D ^a   Minoura, K ^a   Imamura, F ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-51552-0.00003-5     Document Type: Chapter

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