Publicity waves based on manipulated geoscientific data suggesting climatic trigger for majority of tsunami findings in the Mediterranean – Response to 'Tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the Mediterranean' by Marriner et al. (2017) (original) (raw)

2018, Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementary Issues

This article is a response to the publication by Nick Marriner, David Kaniewski, Christophe Morhange, Clément Flaux, Matthieu Giaime, Matteo Vacchi and James Goff entitled "Tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the Mediterranean", published in October 2017 in Science Advances. Making use of radiometric data sets published in the context of selected palaeotsunami studies by independent research groups from different countries, Marriner et al. (2017) carried out statistical and time series analyses. They compared their results with an assessment of Mediterranean storminess since the mid-Holocene that was previously published by Kaniewski et al. (2016) based on a single-core study from coastal Croatia. Marriner et al. (2017) now present "previously unrecognized" 1500-year "tsunami megacycles" which they suggest correlating with Mediterranean climate deterioration. They conclude that up to 90% of all the 'tsunamis&#...