期刊
MARINE GEOLOGY
卷 396, 期 -, 页码 205-214出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2017.05.011
关键词
Overwash sediment; Tropical cyclone; Coastal hazards; Sediment transport; Inverse sediment transport model
资金
- National Science Foundation [EAR-1545619]
- National Research Foundation Singapore
- Singapore Ministry of Education under the Research Centres of Excellence initiative
- [639]
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1419824] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The interpretation of sediments deposited by prehistoric tropical cyclones (TC's) is limited by a lack of modernanalogues, particularly in the South Pacific. On 13 March 2015, TC Pam made landfall on Vanuatu, reaching Category 5 intensity with 10-minute sustained wind speeds as high as 270 km/h. Three months after landfall, we measured flow height (terrain elevation plus storm flow depth) and inland extent of TC Pam's maximum coastalinundation (composed of astronomical tides, storm surge, and superimposed storm waves), and described the sedimentological characteristics of the TC Pam overwash sediments from trenches and transects at two sites(Manuro and Port Resolution Bay). At Manuro (a mixed-carbonate embayment), the maximum flow height was 5.29 m mean sea level (MSL),with an inland extent of 106 m. The TC Pam sediments transition from a coarse to medium grained (mean: 1.07F) carbonate sand (<= 10 cm thick) to pumice (<= 18 cm thick) that extends 400 m inland into Lake Otas. The TC Pam overwash sediments are characterized by a coarsening upward sequence (1.45 to 0.23 Phi) followed by a finer grained eolian cap. At Port Resolution Bay (a volcaniclastic beach, PRB), the maximum flow height was 3.30 m MSL (1.51 m flow depth), with an inland extent of 117 m. The TC Pam overwash sediments transition from a medium grained (mean: 1.76 Phi) volcanic sand (<= 44 cm thick) to pumice (<= 5 cm thick) that extends 320 m from the shoreline. A subtle fining upward sequence was present in trench PRB2, whereas PRB1, PRB3,and PRB4 contained TC Pam sediments that were laminated and showed little to no vertical gradation in grainsize. At PRB, we applied an inverse sediment transport model to reconstruct maximum flow depths using laboratory derived settling velocities and the distance from the berm. The reconstructed flow depths at PRB2(1.43 m), PRB3 (1.36 m), and PRB4 (1.34 m) compare favorably with the observed estimate (1.51 m), illustrating the applicability of the inverse sediment transport model to reconstruct flow depths of prehistoric landfalling TC's.
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