Sentences with phrase «tsunami deposits in»

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Had Obama's financial tsunami come in on paper, the process of opening, logging and depositing it would have overwhelmed just about any political staff in the pre-internet era.

The tsunami was at least three times the size of a 1946 tsunami that was the most destructive in Hawaii's recent history, according to the new study that examined deposits believed to have come from the extreme event and used models to show how it might have occurred.

«These include the sharp mud - over-peat contacts that are laterally continuous over 5 kilometers, changes in fossil foraminifera assemblages across the buried peat contacts, long - lasting submergence also derived from fossil foraminifera records, and radiocarbon ages of plant macrofossils taken from buried peat deposits that are consistent with other southern Cascadia earthquake chronologies derived from buried peat and tsunami deposits.»

Judging from geological traces of two even older tsunami deposits, Koji Minoura, an Earth scientist at Tohoku University in Sendai, and his colleagues proposed in 2001 that giant waves visit the region about every 800 - 1,100 years (K. Minoura et al..

Sand layers deposited in a near - coastal cave — neatly demarcated by bat droppings — tell of epochs of frequent tsunamis separated by long periods of quiescence.

Yet the cave record lacks tsunamis in a 1900 - year interval between about 5400 years ago — when a thick tsunami deposit was laid down — and about 3300 years ago.

Then, about five lesser tsunamis, to judge by the thickness of their deposits, sloshed into the cave in the next 500 years.

They found a record of successive earthquakes in a sequence of stacked tsunami deposits on the coastal plain.

He journeys to the center of the Chicxulub impact crater in Mexico and to the site of purported tsunami deposits on a Texas ranch.

With a stay at The Mareeya Place in Kamala, you'll be near the beach and minutes from Tsunami Memorial and close to Phuket Fantasea.Featured amenities include luggage storage and a safe deposit box at the front desk.Free valet parking is available onsite.

With a stay at At Kamala Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Kamala, walking distance from Tsunami Memorial and close to Kamala Beach.Featured amenities include dry cleaning / laundry services, luggage storage, and a safe deposit box at the front desk.