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Typical tsunami sand in Papua New Guinea in 1998

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center October 1998 (approx.)
Photograph of the side of a hole dug into wet sediment that shows a boundary between sand brought in by a tsunami and the soil.
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Figure 4: Typical tsunami deposit from Arop transect. The tsunami deposited a gray-colored sand, here about 5 cm thick, on a brown soil containing roots.

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