Recognizing megatsunamis in Mediterranean deep sea sediments based on the massive deposits of the 365 CE Crete event.

ABSTRACT: The Mediterranean Sea hosts two subduction systems along the convergent Africa-Eurasia plate boundary that have produced strong ground shaking and generated tsunamis. Based on historical descriptions and sedimentary records, one of these events, in 365 CE, impacted a broad geographical area, including tsunami evidence for distances of 700-800 km from the source event, qualifying it as a 'megatsunami'. Understanding how megatsunamis are produced, and where they are more likely, requires a better understanding of the different secondary processes linked to these events such as massive slope failures, multiple turbidity current generation, and basin seiching. Our sedimentary records from an extensive collection of cores located in distal and disconnected basins, identify turbidites which are

SUBMITTER: Polonia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8960809 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature