Ground penetrating radar facies of inferred tsunami deposits on the shores of the Arabian Sea (Northern Indian Ocean)

Marine Geology

Volumn 351, Issue , 2014, Pages 13-24

  Koster, Benjamin ^a   Hoffmann, Gösta ^a,b   Grützner, Christoph ^a   Reicherter, Klaus ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY IN OMAN   (Oman)

Author keywords

Coastal vulnerability; Extreme wave events; Geomorphology; GPR; Inundation; Risk assessment; Sedimentology; Tsunami deposits

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TSUNAMIS;

COASTAL VULNERABILITY; EXTREME WAVE EVENTS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE; INUNDATION; NORTHERN INDIAN OCEANS; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

FACIES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HISTOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TSUNAMI;

ARABIAN SEA; GULF OF OMAN; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84896483008     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.03.002     Document Type: Article

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