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SUBMITTER: Kennedy AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8243979 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kennedy Andrew B AB Cox Rónadh R Dias Frédéric F
Geophysical research letters 20210607 11
Coastal boulder deposits (CBD) provide what are sometimes the only remaining signatures of wave inundation on rocky coastlines; in recent decades, CBD combined with initiation of motion (IoM) analyses have repeatedly been used as primary evidence to infer the existence of ancient tsunamis. However, IoM storm wave heights inferred by these studies have been shown to be highly inaccurate, bringing some inferences into question. This work develops a dimensionless framework to relate CBD properties ...[more]