Ground-Penetrating Radar Helps Researchers Confirm 900 Year-Old California Tsunami

A group of UC Santa Barbara geologists and their colleagues used ground-penetrating GPR radar to determine the breadth and depth of erosion from an ancient tsunami in Northern California. GPR allowed them to search for physical evidence of a large tsunami that hit the Northern California coast near Crescent City approximately 900 years ago. The researchers said they found
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