A millennial-scale record of Holocene tsunamis on the Kronotskiy

• Main Authors: Tatiana K. Pinegina, A Joanne Bourgeois, Lilia I. Bazanova, Ivan V. Melekestsev, Olga A. Braitsevaa
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Pacific; Kamchatka Peninsula; Zhupanova; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.498.1509; http://kcs.dvo.ru/ivs/bibl/sotrudn/stpineg/m-s.pdf

Deposits from as many as 50 large tsunamis during the last 7000 years are preserved on the Pacific coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula near the mouth of the Zhupanova River, southern Kronotskiy Bay. These deposits are dated and correlated using Holocene marker tephra layers. The combined, preserved rec...