Tsunamigenic landscapes in the Maltese Islands: the Comino Channel coasts

Derek Mottershead; Malcolm Bray; Joanna Causon Deguara

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-15456-1_22

Tsunamigenic landscapes in the Maltese Islands: the Comino Channel coasts

Derek Mottershead^*, Malcolm Bray, Joanna Causon Deguara

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Extreme waves, including tsunami, have left striking imprints on the Maltese coastline. Their geomorphic legacy inshore and onshore is here illustrated via key landscapes along the Comino Channels coasts. Geomorphic signatures, both erosional and depositional, are interpreted to reveal coherent patterns of overwashing of local landscapes by powerful incoming flows, significantly greater than those reported in Maltese historic tsunami records. The field evidence confirms that such an event (or events) has occurred in the past, and hence will likely recur in the future. It is essential that effective procedures for tsunami detection, warning and mitigation are developed in order to safeguard coastal property and public activity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Landscapes and Landforms of the Maltese Islands
Editors	Ritienne Gauci, John Schembri
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	22
Pages	273-288
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-15456-1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-15454-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15456-1_22
Publication status	Published - 5 Aug 2019

Publication series

Name	World Geomorphological Landscapes
ISSN (Print)	2213-2090
ISSN (Electronic)	2213-2104

Keywords

Anthropogenic
Cart-ruts
Erosion
Geomorphology
Holocene

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Tsunamigenic landscapes in the Maltese Islands: the Comino Channel coasts. / Mottershead, Derek; Bray, Malcolm; Causon Deguara, Joanna.
Landscapes and Landforms of the Maltese Islands. ed. / Ritienne Gauci; John Schembri. Springer, 2019. p. 273-288 (World Geomorphological Landscapes).

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Tsunamigenic landscapes in the Maltese Islands: the Comino Channel coasts

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