Coastal area constitutes a vulnerable environment and requires special attention to
preserve ecosystems and human activities therein. To this aim, many studies have been …

The coast of the Gulf of Cadiz has been repeatedly struck by tsunamis during the late
Holocene and the historic period. Historical documents record at least seven catastrophic …

A multi-proxy approach using trench sediment analysis on the southwestern coast of Spain
(Los Lances Bay, Andalusia) provides a high-resolution record of the 1755 Lisbon tsunami …

This paper is the first review of coastal boulder studies; it serves as a peer-reviewed
introduction to a special issue on the topic of 'Boulders as a signature of storms on rock …

SlUlllllary. Sedimentological and palaeoecological observations, accompanied by
archaeological determinations and absolute dating, have been carried out on a recent …

Our understanding of bottom-currents and associated oceanographic processes (eg,
overflows, barotropic tidal currents) including intermittent processes (eg, vertical eddies …

Natural disasters may be considered as opportunities to learn about the magnitude of
natural processes and to better understand the role of human factors, especially exposure to …

Over the past decades, substantial progress has been made in tsunami research. Be that as
it may, little is still known about tsunami deposits and their related depositional mechanisms …

ABSTRACT A remarkable accumulation of marine boulders located above the present
spring tide level has occurred in two coastal lowlands of the Algarve (Portugal). The size …

Abstract Analysis of the geological record has made it possible to delimit for the
Guadalquivir estuary the traces of extreme wave events (EWEs) during the Roman period in …