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Title: | Stratigraphic evidence for an early Holocene earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia | Authors: | Grand Pre, Candace A. Horton, Benjamin P. Kelsey, Harvey M. Rubin, Charles M. Hawkes, Andrea D. Daryono, Mudrik R. Rosenberg, Gary. Culver, Stephen J. |
Issue Date: | 2012 | Source: | Grand Pre, C. A., Horton, B. P., Kelsey, H. M., Rubin, C. M., Hawkes, A. D., Daryono, M. R., et al. (2012). Stratigraphic evidence for an early Holocene earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 54, 142-151. | Series/Report no.: | Quaternary science reviews | Abstract: | The Holocene stratigraphy of the coastal plain of the Aceh Province of Sumatra contains 6 m of sediment with three regionally consistent buried soils above pre-Quaternary bedrock or pre-Holocene unconsolidated sediment. Litho-, bio-, and chronostratigraphic analyses of the lower buried soil reveals a rapid change in relative sea-level caused by coseismic subsidence during an early Holocene megathrust earthquake. Evidence for paleoseismic subsidence is preserved as a buried mangrove soil, dominated by a pollen assemblage of Rhizophora and/or Bruguiera/Ceriops taxa. The soil is abruptly overlain by a thin tsunami sand. The sand contains mixed pollen and abraded foraminiferal assemblages of both offshore and onshore environments. The tsunami sand grades upward into mud that contains both well-preserved foraminifera of intertidal origin and individuals of the gastropod Cerithidea cingulata. Radiocarbon ages from the pre- and post-seismic sedimentary sequences constrain the paleoearthquake to 6500–7000 cal. yrs. BP. We use micro-and macrofossil data to determine the local paleoenvironment before and after the earthquake. We estimate coseismic subsidence to be 0.45 ± 0.30 m, which is comparable to the 0.6 m of subsidence observed during the 2004 Aceh–Andaman earthquake on Aceh’s west coast. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97430 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10561 |
ISSN: | 0277-3791 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.03.011 | Schools: | School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences | Research Centres: | Earth Observatory of Singapore | Rights: | © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. | Fulltext Permission: | none | Fulltext Availability: | No Fulltext |
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