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The geological record of paleotsunamis striking Shikotan island, in the lesser Kurils, during holocene time

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Paleotsunami remains have been studied in Middle/Late Holocene peat bogs and lacustrine deposits on Shikotan I. We determined the age of the events, the inundation areas, and the distance the tsunami waves traveled on shores of varying structures. The frequency of tsunami occurrence was nonuniform; these events were the most frequent in the middle of the Late Holocene. Data are provided for specific areas of the island’s coast, sequences have been identified containing numerous interbeds of tsunamigenic sand, which can be used as markers. The composition of the tsunamigenic sand has been analyzed to reveal its similarities with and differences to other coastal marine facies and to determine the sources of the material. These data could serve as a basis for compiling a highly detailed geological record of these events for the southern Kuril region during the last 6000 years.

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  1. Pacific Institute of Geography, Far East Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia

    N. G. Razzhigaeva, L. A. Ganzei & T. A. Grebennikova

  2. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    A. A. Kharlamov

  3. Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far East Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 693000, Russia

    A. Ya. Ilyev & V. M. Kaistrenko

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Original Russian Text © N.G. Razzhigaeva, L.A. Ganzei, T.A. Grebennikova, A.A. Kharlamov, A.Ya. Ilyev, V.M. Kaistrenko, 2008, published in Vulkanologiya i Seismologiya, 2008, No. 4, pp. 50–66.

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Razzhigaeva, N.G., Ganzei, L.A., Grebennikova, T.A. et al. The geological record of paleotsunamis striking Shikotan island, in the lesser Kurils, during holocene time. J. Volcanolog. Seismol. 2, 262–277 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0742046308040040

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