1) complete the documentation of a benchmark data set for tsunami sedimentology; 2) quantify beach topographic and nearshore bathymetric profile adjustment to tsunami erosion, co-seismic subsidence, and subsequent rebound and recovery; and 3) initiate a study of tsunami sediment deposition taphonomy.
Description
United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California,United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center,Oregon State University. Chief Scientists: Guy Gelfenbaum, Peter Ruggiero. Bathymetric and Coring data (bathymetry, pushcore, GPS) of field activity S-1-07-IN in Northwestern Sumatra, Indonesia from 11/04/2007 to 11/16/2007
Location
Indonesia
Summary
Topographic and bathymetric profile collection and tsunami deposit study at several locations along the northwest Sumatra coast previously studied in 2005.
Info derived
Topographic and bathymetric profiles, shoreline position, and detailed analysis of trenches and cores.
Comments
Sumatra coastal morphology and tsunami sedimentology. Shore based and local vessels.
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Guy Gelfenbaum
Peter Ruggiero
Mark Buckley
