Scheffers, Anja M.
[Herausgeber:in];
Kelletat, Dieter
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
;
International Geoscience Programme,
International Tsunami Field Symposium 1 2006
Tsunamis, hurricanes and neotectonics as driving mechanisms in coastal evolution
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Tsunamis, hurricanes and neotectonics as driving mechanisms in coastal evolution
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proceedings of the Bonaire Field Symposium, March 2 - 6, 2006; a contribution to IGCP 495; with ... 10 tables
Beschreibung:
The study of modern and ancient tsunami impacts on coastal areas is becoming increasingly important, not only since the December 24, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami has devasted many coastal communities in SE Asia, but also since human societies have settled there and coastal population density has increased. Obviously, a prediction of future tsunami impacts and their run up heights along all coastlines of the world makes it necessary to understand the processes and also the frequency and extension of tsunami events happened in the past. Learning from the past is one of the most important aspects in recent tsunami- and paleo-tsunami research. The Supplement volume presents 12 papers from the "First International Tsunami Field Symposium" on the island of Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles) in March 2006. The meeting was organized by Anja Scheffers and Dieter Kelletat, who present their results on the manifold sedimentologic and geomorphologic traces of extreme waves (Hurricane and Tsunami) on Bonaire during the Holocene in the field. In the preface, Anja Scheffers & Dieter Kelletat, the organizers of the symposium and the editors of this volume, give an excellent overview of some goals of the symposium and to main aspects of recent research on the impact of large storm- or tsunami-generated waves on modern and ancient coastlines.