Digital archive of ephemerally preserved sedimentary structure in surf zone uplifted by the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake
Masatoshi Yuhi, Noritaka Endo, Hiroko Okazaki, Yusuke Suzuki, Fujio Masuda, Shinya Umeda, Junichi Ninomiya, Mamoru Arita, Keisuke Futagi, Tetsuji Konno, Tsuyoshi Haraguchi · 2026
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Description
Masatoshi Yuhi and co-authors archive a fleeting coast record in a 2026 paper. The surf zone where waves break holds layers of sand that record its history, but those layers sit under restless water and could never be watched directly without disturbing them. That blind spot limited study of how beaches behave.
On the first day of 2024, an earthquake on the Noto Peninsula lifted a stretch of Japanese coast out of the sea in seconds. The surf zone layers came up with it, preserved whole on dry land. The team recorded that rare structure digitally before weather could erase it, for coastal science.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Masatoshi Yuhi, Noritaka Endo, Hiroko Okazaki, Yusuke Suzuki, Fujio Masuda, Shinya Umeda, Junichi Ninomiya, Mamoru Arita, Keisuke Futagi, Tetsuji Konno, Tsuyoshi Haraguchi |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |