Tsunamis boulders on the rocky shores of Minorca (Balearic Islands)

Roig-Munar, Francesc Xavier; Vilaplana, Joan Manuel; Rodríguez-Perea, Antoni; Martín-Prieto, José Ángel; Gelabert, Bernadí

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1985-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1985-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1985-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 7

Research article

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17 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 17 Jul 2018

Tsunamis boulders on the rocky shores of Minorca (Balearic Islands)

Francesc Xavier Roig-Munar, Joan Manuel Vilaplana, Antoni Rodríguez-Perea, José Ángel Martín-Prieto, and Bernadí Gelabert

Data sets

Blocs de tempesta i tsunami a les costes rocoses de les Illes Balears, Anàlisi geomorfològica i morfomètrica F. X. Roig-Munar http://hdl.handle.net/2445/103318

Short summary

Large boulders have been found on platforms that comprise the rocky coastline of Minorca (Balearic Islands), several tens of meters from the edge of the cliff, up to 15 m above the sea level, and kilometers away from any inland escarpment. The age of the boulders, the direction of imbrication and the estimation of run-up necessary for their placement indicate dislodging and transport by northern Africa tsunami waves that hit the coastline of Minorca.