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SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY
卷 332, 期 -, 页码 40-50出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.11.010
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Palaeotsunami deposit; Sediment fabric; X-ray microtomography; Optically stimulated luminescence
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资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [MA 5768/1-1]
- Australian Research Council (ARC) [FT0990910]
- Department of Parks and Wildlife (Perth/Exmouth)
- Australian Research Council [FT0990910] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
Although extreme-wave events are frequent along the northwestern coast of Western Australia and tsunamis in 1994 and 2006 induced considerable coastal flooding locally, robust stratigraphical evidence of prehistoric tropical cyclones and tsunamis from this area is lacking. Based on the analyses of X-ray computed microtomography (mu CT) of oriented sediment cores, multi-proxy sediment and microfaunal analyses, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and C-14-AMS dating, this study presents detailed investigations on an allochthonous sand layer of marine origin found in a back-barrier depression on the NW Cape Range peninsula. The event layer consists of material from the adjacent beach and dune, fines and thins inland, and was traced up to similar to 400 m onshore. Although a cyclone-induced origin cannot entirely be ruled out, the particular architecture and fabric of the sediment, rip-up clasts and three subunits point to deposition by a tsunami. As such, it represents the first stratigraphical evidence of a prehistoric, mid-Holocene tsunami in NW Western Australia. It was OSL-dated to 5400-4300 years ago, thus postdating the regional mid-Holocene sea-level highstand. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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