Microfossils from coastal environments as indicators of paleo-earthquakes, tsunamis and storms

JE Pilarczyk, T Dura, BP Horton, SE Engelhart… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
Coastal risk assessment and hazard mitigation require datasets on centennial and
millennial temporal scales to capture natural variability and multiple occurrences of the …

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

T Dura, M Cisternas, BP Horton, LL Ely… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The∼ 500-year historical record of seismicity along the central Chile coast (30–34° S) is
characterized by a series of∼ M 8.0–8.5 earthquakes followed by low tsunamis (< 4 m) …

Extreme wave deposits on the Pacific coast of Mexico: Tsunamis or storms?—A multi-proxy approach

MT Ramírez-Herrera, M Lagos, I Hutchinson… - Geomorphology, 2012 - Elsevier
Historical and instrumental data show that the Pacific coast of Mexico has been exposed to
destructive tsunamis over at least the past 500years. This coast is also affected by …

The application of diatoms to reconstruct the history of subduction zone earthquakes and tsunamis

T Dura, E Hemphill-Haley, Y Sawai, BP Horton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Earthquake and tsunami records on centennial and millennial temporal scales are
necessary to understanding long-term subduction zone behavior and the occurrences of …

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

C Chagué-Goff, J Goff, HKY Wong, M Cisternas - Marine Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Geochemical proxies and diatom assemblages were used in combination with grain size
characteristics not only to describe the deposit left behind by the 27 February 2010, Maule …

Comparison of earthquake-triggered turbidites from the Saguenay (Eastern Canada) and Reloncavi (Chilean margin) Fjords: Implications for paleoseismicity and …

G St-Onge, E Chapron, S Mulsow, M Salas, M Viel… - Sedimentary …, 2012 - Elsevier
High-resolution seismic profiles along with physical and sedimentological properties of
sediment cores from the Saguenay (Eastern Canada) and Reloncavi (Chile) Fjords allowed …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarks and sediment source (s) of the 1755 Lisbon tsunami deposit at Boca do Rio Estuary

E Font, C Veiga-Pires, M Pozo, S Nave, S Costas… - Marine Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
Standardizing the signature of tsunami deposits has been identified as a major limitation for
the identification of paleo-tsunami deposits. This limitation mostly arises from the strongly …

Tsunami deposits of the Caribbean–Towards an improved coastal hazard assessment

M Engel, J Oetjen, SM May, H Brückner - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Coasts worldwide experience considerable population pressure and the demand for reliable
hazard management, such as of tsunamis, increases. Tsunami hazard assessment requires …

Subduction zone slip variability during the last millennium, south-central Chile

T Dura, BP Horton, M Cisternas, LL Ely, I Hong… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Arauco Peninsula (37°-38° S) in south-central Chile has been proposed as a
possible barrier to the along-strike propagation of megathrust ruptures, separating historical …

A comprehensive review of tsunami and palaeotsunami research in Chile

T León, AYA Lau, G Easton, J Goff - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Chile is a tsunami-prone country. Since the 1960 Chilean earthquake triggered a Pacific-
wide tsunami, there has been a considerable amount of research conducted on the geologic …