Sedimentological records of the C.E. 1707 Hōei Nankai Trough tsunami in the Bungo Channel, southwestern Japan
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- 作者：Hannah E. Baranes ; Jonathan D. Woodruff ; Davin J. Wallace…
- 关键词：Tsunami deposit ; Nankai Trough ; 1707 Hōei event
- 刊名：Natural Hazards
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：November 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：84
- 期：2
- 页码：1185-1205
- 全文大小：2,005 KB
- 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
- 刊物主题：Earth sciences
Hydrogeology
Geophysics and Geodesy
Geotechnical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Environmental Management - 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-0840
- 卷排序：84
文摘
A tsunami generated by the C.E. 1707 Hōei earthquake is largely thought to be the flood event of record for southwestern Japan, yet historical documentation of the event is scarce. This is particularly true within the Bungo Channel, where significant inconsistencies exist between historical records and model-derived tsunami heights. To independently assess flooding from the Hōei tsunami in this region, we present complementary reconstructions of extreme coastal inundation from three back-barrier lakes in the northern Bungo Channel: Lake Ryuuoo, Lake Amida, and Lake Kamega. At all sites, the age of the most recent prominent marine overwash deposit is consistent with the timing of the 1707 tsunami. When combined with historical documentation of the event, these sedimentological records provide strong evidence that the 1707 tsunami is the most significant flood of recent centuries and one of the most significant floods over the last millennium in the region. At Lake Ryuuoo, modern barrier beach elevations and grain sizes in the tsunami’s resultant deposit provide ~4 m as the first physically based height constraint for the 1707 tsunami in the northern Bungo Channel. A concurrent transition in lithology that is consistent with regional geomorphic change is also observed at all three sites around 1000 years ago, although the precise timing and nature of the transition remain unclear.