Coastal evidence for Holocene subduction-zone earthquakes and tsunamis in central Chile

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 93-111

  Dura, Tina ^a,c,d   Cisternas, Marco ^b   Horton, Benjamin P ^c,d,e   Ely, Lisa L ^f   Nelson, Alan R ^g   Wesson, Robert L ^g   Pilarczyk, Jessica E ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d USA   (United States)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^f CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal hazards; Coastal paleoseismology; Diatom paleoecology; Prehistoric earthquakes; Tsunami deposits

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; DEPOSITS; GEOPHYSICS; SAND; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TSUNAMIS;

COASTAL HAZARDS; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; PREHISTORIC EARTHQUAKES; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS;

EARTHQUAKES;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DIATOM; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LITHOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOSEISMICITY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMI EVENT;

CHILE; VALPARAISO [CHILE];

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84930200791     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.015     Document Type: Article

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