Insights from geochemistry and diatoms to characterise a tsunami's deposit and maximum inundation limit

2014/11/25 by Catherine Chagué-Goff, Catherine Chagué‐Goff, James Goff +3 · 102 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Clastic rock #Debris #Deposition (geology) #Diatom #Geochemistry #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Geomorphology #Hydrology (agriculture) #Marine and environmental studies #Oceanography #Pumice #Sediment #Sedimentary rock #Volcano #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2014.11.009

published in Marine Geology 359, 22-34 (Elsevier BV)

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