C-Dated Charcoal and Sediment Drilling Cores as First Evidence of Holocene Tsunamis at the Southern Spanish Coast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9244133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Becker-Heidmann, Klaus Reicherter (0000-0002-9339-4488), Pablo G Silva |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 827-835 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radiocarbon (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-8222 • E-ISSN: 1945-5755 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0033822200042703 |
| OpenAlex | W1860726659 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
At 2 locations of the southern Spanish coast, we found indications for tsunamis induced by submarine earthquakes. Charcoal, which we sampled in 2 stratified, assumed tsunamigenic sediment (tsunamites) layers at the shore outside the ruins of the Roman city of Baelo Claudia, close to the Strait of Gibraltar (province of Cádiz), and radiocarbon dated, surprisingly turned out to be of identical age, about 465 BP. In the laguna of the Cabo de Gata (province of Almería), we found possible remnants of tsunamites in drilling cores deposited above organic sediments, 14 C dated as 680 ± 30 BP
Absolute dating · Archaeology · Charcoal · Debris · Drilling · Geography · Holocene · Quaternary · Radiocarbon dating · Sediment · Shore · earthquake and tectonic studies · Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |