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Finding of Probable Tsunami Boulders on Jiupeng Coast in Southeastern Taiwan

Authors :
Wen-Shan Chen
Nobuhisa Matta
Yuka Nishikawa
Ling-Ho Chung
Yoko Ota
Masataka Ando
Source :
Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Vol 24, Iss 1, p 159 (2013)
Publication Year :
2013
Publisher :
Chinese Geoscience Union, 2013.

Abstract

We find three coral boulders (approx. 5 m across) resting on the Holocene coral terrace on the Jiupeng coast of southeastern Taiwan. Three exotic corals on the outer part of the boulders are dated at ca. 5000 yr BP which is similar to that of in situ corals composing the Holocene terrace. We interpret that these boulders were broken off from the coral terrace and were transported by tsunami waves, although the timing of the paleotsunami is not determined at this stage.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
23117680 and 10170839
Volume :
24
Issue :
1
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....0ee00598ff64d1849a21bd71056b365e