Sedimentologic and geomorphologic tsunami imprints worldwide—a review

A Scheffers, D Kelletat - Earth-Science Reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
Tsunami events with extreme effects on sedimentary transport or considerable alterations of
the coastal configuration are rather rare regarding human history, but considering geological …

Evidence for large earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone

JJ Clague - Reviews of Geophysics, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Large, historically unprecedented earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone in western
North America have left signs of sudden land level change, tsunamis, and strong shaking in …

Tsunami deposits

AG Dawson, S Shi - Pure and applied geophysics, 2000 - Springer
Geological investigations of coastal sediments indicate that prehistoric tsunamis can be
identified. Their characterisation has altered our knowledge of the past frequency and …

Identifying coseismic subsidence in tidal‐wetland stratigraphic sequences at the Cascadia subduction zone of western North America

AR Nelson, I Shennan, AJ Long - Journal of Geophysical …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Tidal‐wetland stratigraphy reveals that great plate boundary earthquakes have caused
hundreds of kilometers of coast to subside at the Cascadia subduction zone. However …

A review of geological records of large tsunamis at Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and implications for hazard

JJ Clague, PT Bobrowsky, I Hutchinson - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2000 - Elsevier
Large tsunamis strike the British Columbia coast an average of once every several hundred
years. Some of the tsunamis, including one from Alaska in 1964, are the result of distant …

Localized scenarios and latitudinal patterns of vertical and lateral resilience of tidal marshes to sea‐level rise in the contiguous United States

JR Holmquist, LN Brown, GM MacDonald - Earth's Future, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal wetlands have two dimensions of vulnerability to sea‐level rise (SLR), a vertical
one, in cases where SLR outpaces their capacity to vertically accrete, and a lateral one, in …

[PDF][PDF] Geologic effects and records of tsunamis

J Bourgeois, EN Bernard, AR Robinson - The sea, 2009 - faculty.washington.edu
Nor should we omit to mention the havoc committed on low coasts, during earthquakes, by
waves of the sea which roll in upon the land, bearing everything before them, for many miles …

Distribution and sedimentary characteristics of tsunami deposits along the Cascadia margin of western North America

R Peters, B Jaffe, G Gelfenbaum - Sedimentary Geology, 2007 - Elsevier
Tsunami deposits have been found at more than 60 sites along the Cascadia margin of
Western North America, and here we review and synthesize their distribution and …

A millennial-scale record of Holocene tsunamis on the Kronotskiy Bay coast, Kamchatka, Russia

TK Pinegina, J Bourgeois, LI Bazanova… - Quaternary …, 2003 - cambridge.org
Deposits from as many as 50 large tsunamis during the last 7000 years are preserved on the
Pacific coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula near the mouth of the Zhupanova River, southern …

[图书][B] Since the time of the transformers: the ancient heritage of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Ditidaht and Makah

AD McMillan - 1999 - books.google.com
The Makah, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Ditidaht are closely related peoples who occupy the
northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula and western Vancouver Island. In this compelling and …