Author:
Sawai Yuki,Tamura Toru,Shimada Yumi,Tanigawa Koichiro
Abstract
AbstractScour ponds from unusually large tsunamis cut across the crest of a beach ridge in Kiritappu marsh, eastern Hokkaido. No fewer than ten of these ponds were imaged by photogrammetry as elongate topographic depressions as large as 5 m by 30 m. Sediments in these ponds are underlain by unconformities that were detected with ground-penetrating radar and observed directly in cores and a slice sample. Sediment deposits in the ponds contain peat and volcanic ash layers, the ages of which suggest that the scouring occurred during tsunamis generated by spatially extensive thrust ruptures along the southern Kuril trench, most recently during the early seventeenth century and its predecessor during the thirteenth–fourteenth century. Some of the ponds appear to have been formed during one tsunami and refreshed during later successors. This evidence of recurrent erosion suggests that the shoreline may retreat as part of earthquake-related cycles of coastal uplift and subsidence.
Funder
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Geological Survey of Japan
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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