Giant detachment under the sea

2008/02/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

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A team from Bristol University concludes that 60,000 years ago there was a giant earthquake under the sea. As a consequence of the detachment, there was the greatest flow of sand and mud ever measured on Earth: the mass that moved was ten times greater than it moves in a year adding all the rivers of the Earth. As a fact, they claim that the flow reached 150 kilometers wide and that, in addition, the mass traveled about 1,500 kilometers to its deposition.