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Tsunami Seminar
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- Identification of ancient tsunami events using tsunami deposits
- Contents of today's talk
- What should we do against the tsunami disaster?
- How can we predict the next tsunami event?
- 1. Ancient documents
- Rupture zone(1)
- Rupture zone(2)
- 2. Tsunami deposits (stones)
- Formation Process of Tsunami Deposits
- Records of ancient tsunami events are in the bottoms of land, lake and sea!
- 2. Tsunami deposits (stones)
- Presence of marine planktons
- Upward fining layers
- Sedimentary structures reflecting influence of currents
- Cross lamination: the case of tsunami
- current directions
- Example : Study of Recurrent Interval of Tsunami
- Topic 1: The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary asteroid impact event
- Discovery of impact crater in the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico
- K/T boundary impact was an oceanic impact
- Distribution of tsunami deposits around the impact site
- Presence of tsunami deposits in Cuba, Mexico, USA...
- Tsunami generation mechanism at the K/T boundary
- Wave height of tsunami around the impact site
- 2. Tsunami deposits (stones)
- Measurement of tsunami wave height
- Erosion of beach sands by tsunami waves
- Distribution of Indian Ocean tsunami deposits
- Topographic map
- A1: 40 m away from the shoreline(1)
- A1: 40 m away from the shoreline(2)
- A1: Grain composition
- Tsunami stones
- Tsunami stone can be recognized from satellite
- Summary
- Q1 from ITB
- Q2 from ITB
- Q3 from Brawijaya