Terraced deposits left by the eruption of semi-submerged volcanos (VIDEO)

University of British Columbia

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Terraced deposits left by the eruption of semi-submerged volcanos are a fingerprint outlining what happened during the eruption, the size of sedimentation waves, and how waves interact with the water and seafloor. Dr. Johan Gilchrist discusses a new Nature Geoscience paper.

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Junyi Sun, University of British Columbia

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