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Amber in Cretaceous Sea Deposits Contains Traces of Ancient Large-Scale Tsunamis


Large amber deposits discovered in northern Japan were likely swept out from a forest to the ocean by one or more tsunamis between 116 and 114 million years ago (Early Cretaceous epoch).

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