Master project Tsunami
 last updated: September 12, 2005
K/T boundary tsunami deposits in the southern USA  
Period: August 2005, or july-august 2006
Goal: Reconstruction of the Chicxulub tsunami deposits at the KT boundary at 50-100m waterdepth.
Area: Alabama, Missouri, Texas, Northeast Mexico(see Map)
background information:

Marine deposits from large tsunami's are poorly known, but should be present at many places and are probably not recognized as such. The problem with fossil tsunami deposits is that they are found just above sealevel in and area of high erosion rate, so that only the most recent deposits will be preserved. Offshore tsunami deposits above storm wavebase are usually reworked and incorporated in sandstones characterized by hummocky crossbedding from those later storm events.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Possibilities within the Event Stratigraphy division of the department of Sedimentology

Cretaceous-Tertiary K/T boundary projects

 

Chicxulub drilling csdp

Projecten voor scholieren

Zumaya - Biscaye project

 

 

 

 

K/T rhythmicity project

 

 

Giant tsunami project

P/T boundary

 

Zoophycos

Turbidite vs tsunamite problem

Geulhem K/T boundary stormlayer succession

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Bachelorsafsluitings projecten
Pilbara-Hamersley range Impact - Rhythmicity project (afgesloten)
Inoceramid project (actief)
Ordovician meteorite swarm (actief)
   
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Masters thesis projects
Tsunami deposits transect (Southern USA) (open for 2005)
The first 500 years after the Chicxulub impact; Ultra detailed investigations of the first sediments above the impact ejecta layer: Coals and lignites in the Western Interior of the USA (open for 2005)
   
   

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PhD projects
(ENCI) Maastrichtian event stratigraphy and environmental changes
Deep water Tsunami deposits (Storegga slide and meteorite impacts)
   
   

 


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