Chapter 33 Archaeological dating of tsunami and storm deposits

The potential of tsunamis and large storms to result in loss of life, property damage, habitat alteration, and geomorphological change leads to a need to resolve the timing and regularity of past events. A standard means to inform and determine coastal-hazard potential is to create event catalogs consisting of historical and instrumental records combined with physical field evidence. Coastal regions, today as well as in the past, are attractive …