Geography and Oceanography - Chapter 24 docx

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... rockAccumulated strain (“elastic”)shallowdeep 24 Tree ring datingCareful dating of the drowned trees correlates with Japanese tsunamiJapanese 8.9 Earthquake and Tsunami (March 11, 2011) ~18,000 ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRDpTEjumdo1320Multiple events recorded in coastal sediments15Mega-Slumps can trigger tsunami26Tsunami risk, PNW49T10a38T14b4Tsunami Animationhttp://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/animate.html19Geologic...

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