Salt marshes as late Holocene tide gauges

NLM Barlow, I Shennan, AJ Long, WR Gehrels… - Global and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Understanding late Holocene to present relative sea-level changes at centennial or sub-
centennial scales requires geological records that dovetail with the instrumental era. Salt …

The application of diatoms to reconstruct the history of subduction zone earthquakes and tsunamis

T Dura, E Hemphill-Haley, Y Sawai, BP Horton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Earthquake and tsunami records on centennial and millennial temporal scales are
necessary to understanding long-term subduction zone behavior and the occurrences of …

Contribution of benthic and epiphytic diatoms to clam and oyster production in the Akkeshi-ko estuary

M Kasim, H Mukai - Journal of Oceanography, 2006 - Springer
The species composition and dynamics of phytoplankton in the water column and its
contribution to clam, Ruditapes philippinarum, and oyster, Crassostrea gigas, production …

Morphology and metabarcoding: a test with stream diatoms from Mexico highlights the complementarity of identification methods

D Mora, N Abarca, S Proft, JH Grau… - Freshwater …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Diatoms are among the most commonly used bioindicators. Correct taxonomic
identifications are critical to their use as bioindicators because closely related diatom …

[HTML][HTML] Subduction zone paleoseismology along the Pacific coast of northeast Japan—progress and remaining problems

Y Sawai - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reviews recent progress in tsunami geology and the history of coastal
uplift/subsidence along the Pacific coasts of Hokkaido and Tohoku, facing the Kuril and …

Great-earthquake paleogeodesy and tsunamis of the past 2000 years at Alsea Bay, central Oregon coast, USA

AR Nelson, Y Sawai, AE Jennings, LA Bradley… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
The width of plate-boundary fault rupture at the Cascadia subduction zone, a dimension
related to earthquake magnitude, remains uncertain because of the lack of quantitative …

The development of a diatom-based transfer function along the Pacific coast of eastern Hokkaido, northern Japan—an aid in paleoseismic studies of the Kuril …

Y Sawai, BP Horton, T Nagumo - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper provides a dataset to develop a diatom-based transfer function, which is
applicable to paleoseismic studies at southwestern Kuril subduction zone, northern Japan …

Scour ponds from unusually large tsunamis on a beach-ridge plain in eastern Hokkaido, Japan

Y Sawai, T Tamura, Y Shimada, K Tanigawa - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Scour 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 …

Diatoms from the Pearl River estuary, China and their suitability as water salinity indicators for coastal environments

Y Zong, AC Kemp, F Yu, JM Lloyd, G Huang… - Marine …, 2010 - Elsevier
We collected 77 modern diatom samples from sites across the Pearl River estuary, China to
analyze the relationship between diatom assemblages and environmental parameters …

Detection limits of tidal-wetland sequences to identify variable rupture modes of megathrust earthquakes

I Shennan, E Garrett, N Barlow - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent paleoseismological studies question whether segment boundaries identified for 20th
and 21st century great,> M8, earthquakes persist through multiple earthquake cycles or …