NH24A:
Recent Advances in Research on Geological and Environmental Impacts of Tsunamis II

Session ID#: 1818

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Salon 7 (Marriott Marquis)
Chairs:  Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Witold Szczucinski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Geology, Poznań, Poland
Primary Convener:  Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales/ANSTO, Sydney, Australia
Co-conveners:  Witold Szczucinski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland, Bruce M Richmond, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Kazuhisa Goto, Tokyo University, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo, Japan
OSPA Liaison:  Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • S - Seismology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
4302 Geological [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4317 Precursors [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Virtual Option?: Yes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

NH24A-01
The Mystery of Chevrons Revealed (Invited) (2585)
Michaela Spiske1,2, Anna-Marietta Garcia Garcia2, Sumiko Tsukamoto3 and Volkmar Schmidt1, (1)University of Münster, Münster, Germany, (2)Institut fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie, Muenster, Germany, (3)Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover, Germany
NH24A-02
Improving Tsunami Hazard Assessment: Lessons from Deposits from Seven Modern Tsunamis (16966)
Brent Lunghino1, Erica L E Emry1, Bruce M Richmond1, Guy R Gelfenbaum1, Steve Watt1, SeanPaul La Selle1 and Mark L Buckley2, (1)USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
NH24A-03
Tsunami deposits formed and preserved in accordance with the local environment (Invited) (31294)
Yuichi Nishimura, Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan and Yugo Nakamura, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
NH24A-04
Historical Tropical Cyclones and the 1883 Krakatoa Tsunami Inferred from Geological Archives of the Ashburton Delta (NW Australia) (4764)
Simon Matthias May1, Dominik Brill1, Max Engel1, Anja Scheffers2, Anna Pint1, Volker Wennrich3, Squire Peter2, Dieter Kelletat1 and Helmut Brückner1, (1)University of Cologne, Institute of Geography, Cologne, Germany, (2)Southern Cross University, Southern Cross Geoscience, Lismore, Australia, (3)University of Cologne, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Cologne, Germany
NH24A-05
Bedforms under tsunami flows (Invited) (2595)
Raphael Paris and Simon Falvard Sr., Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France
NH24A-06
Shallow Offshore Tsunami Sedimentary Deposits: Challenges and Benefits with examples from the Eastern Mediterranean and northern Red Sea (21189)
Beverly Nicole Goodman Tchernov, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
NH24A-07
Recent Advances in Tsunami Research – the Devil Is in the Detail (Invited) (2652)
James R Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
NH24A-08
Inversion of tsunami characteristics:Estimation of transient flow depth and speed with quantified uncertainties (27673)
Hui Tang, Robert Weiss, Heng Xiao and Jianxun WANG, Virginia Polytech State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
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