An extreme wave event in eastern Yucatan, Mexico: Evidence of a palaeotsunami event during the Mayan times

Lario, Javier, Spencer, Chris, Bardají, Teresa, Marchante Ortega, Ángel, Garduño-monroy, Victor H., Macias, Jorge y Ortega, Sergio . (2020) An extreme wave event in eastern Yucatan, Mexico: Evidence of a palaeotsunami event during the Mayan times. Sedimentology, 67:1481-1504

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Título An extreme wave event in eastern Yucatan, Mexico: Evidence of a palaeotsunami event during the Mayan times
Autor(es) Lario, Javier
Spencer, Chris
Bardají, Teresa
Marchante Ortega, Ángel
Garduño-monroy, Victor H.
Macias, Jorge
Ortega, Sergio
Materia(s) Geología
Abstract The Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, has typically been considered a tectonically stable region with little significant seismic activity. The region though, is one that is regularly affected by hurricanes. A detailed survey of ca 100 km of the eastern Yucatan and Cozumel coast identified the presence of ridges containing individual boulders measuring >1 m in length. The boulder ridges reach 5 m in height and their origin is associated with extreme wave event activity. Previously modelled tsunami waves from known seismically active zones in the region (Muertos Thrust Belt and South Caribbean Deformed Belt) are not of sufficient scale in the area of the Yucatan Peninsula to have produced the boulder ridges recorded in this study. The occurrence of hurricanes in this region is more common, but two of the most destructive (Hurricane Gilbert 1988 and Hurricane Wilma 2005) produced coastal waves too small to have created the ridges recorded here. In this paper, a new tsunami model with a source area located on the Motagua/Swan Island Fault System has been generated that indicates a tsunami event may have caused the extreme wave events that resulted in the deposition of the boulder ridges.
Palabras clave Boulders
extreme wave event
palaeoseismology
tsunami
Editor(es) Wiley Online Library
Fecha 2020
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Identificador bibliuned:grupinvestGAMA-Articulos-Jlario-0026
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DOI - identifier https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12662
ISSN - identifier 0037-0746
Nombre de la revista Sedimentology
Número de Volumen 67
Página inicial 1481
Página final 1504
Publicado en la Revista Sedimentology, 67:1481-1504
Idioma eng
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Notas adicionales Article published by Wiley in "Sedimentology", DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12662
Notas adicionales Artículo publicado por Wiley en "Sedimentology", con DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12662

 
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