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STORM AND TSUNAMI OVERWASH SEDIMENT TRANSPORT INFERRED FROM RECENT DEPOSITS. (2023). Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 37, sediment.65. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v37.sediment.65
Abstract
Overwash deposits from storms and tsunamis record information about sediment transport and flow that can be used to inform hazard assessments. Here we explore deposits from two extreme wave events: (1) the 2012 Hurricane Sandy, a Category 5 hurricane that is the largest storm in the Atlantic basin on historical record, and (2) the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami, created by a 9.0 Mw earthquake, that was up to 20 m high at the coast.References
La Selle, Lunghino, Jaffe, Gelfenbaum and Costa (2017): Hurricane Sandy washover deposits on Fire Island, New York, USGS Open-File Report 2017-1014, pp. 38.
Richmond, Goto, Fujino, Nishimura, Sugawara, Tappin, Witter, Jaffe, Chagué-Goff, Szczuciński, Yulianto and Goff (2012): Erosion, deposition, flow characteristics, and landscape change on the Sendai, Japan coastal plain resulting from the March 11, 2011 Tōhoku-oki tsunami, Sedimentary Geology 282, pp. 27-39.
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